In fairness to those who are responsible, there are quite substantial ethical and practical problems about vetting potential adoptive parents.
These include a character inquiry form which is used as part of the vetting process.
It would be far more sensible to apply the checks or vetting process before the pass was issued.
Discretionary visits may be authorised by the governor to enable close relatives to visit such prisoners during the period before the vetting process is completed.
I have said that the vetting process includes as one of its basic processes the interview of referees.
The review recommended, however, that there should be a streamlining of the procedures that made up the vetting process.
Placing control questions in the beginning of the questionnaire also worked well in vetting out people trying to make up a history of being an excombatant.
This focus will also allow more attention to be paid to selecting and vetting comprehensive and robust sense inventories, including detailed specifications and definitions for each.
