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It's very, very important that our children in school are safeguarded. And so a volunteer coming to school to say, please, may I come in. Well, we need assurance that that person is the right person to be in contact with our children. We wouldn't open the front door and say, do come in, all of you. Come and work with our children, because there are evident safeguarding concerns there. So as it stands at the moment, a check is required-- an identity check. And through the questions that are asked such as proving who you are via your passport or your driving licence and your date of birth and where you've lived, the authorities can actually check against your name that there are no criminal convictions that would prevent you, most reasonably, from working with children. That does not mean to say that somebody with a criminal conviction cannot, but there are obviously some misdemeanours, shall we say, or crimes, even, that would prevent you from working alongside a child. And so as your interest in becoming a volunteer, the school would actually ask you to come in to take that, to give those pieces of information so it can be forwarded via a website. And then the school gets information that actually, absolutely everything is fine. Do invite them in. So please don't let that deter you, but I'm sure everybody's in a position to understand why it is so necessary.