Petition · past parliament

To ensure volunteers who dress up for charity organisations have DBS checks

Closed 118 signatures

What the petition asks

Organisations (non-profit) who do charity events are not as yet required by law to give members DBS checks
At the moment any sex offenders even if they are on the sex offenders registry are allowed to dress in costume concealing their identity and carry out non-profit charity work even at events where children could be present and interacted with without any DBS checks. I would like a law to be passed to make such organisations responsible to carry out DBS checks on any present and new members by law

Timeline

19 Dec 2017 Petition opened for signatures
19 Jun 2018 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 118
Status Closed
Opened 19 Dec 2017
Closed 19 Jun 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.