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Australia Concerned About Sex Offender Background Checks for Youth Leagues

The United States is not the only one concerned with background checks to prevent convicted felons and sexual predators from gaining access to children.    According to news.com.audifferent Australian  youth groups and sports club are claiming they don’t have either the time or financial resources  to run background checks on its  adult volunteers.   Only now are some of the clubs beginning to audit its volunteers.

According to the article,  officials from several sports codes say they want to adopt Queensland’s Blue Card model, in which volunteers’ details are collected on a central database, which can be accessed by any organisation needing to perform background checks.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.

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