The government plans to expand the scope of application of the Sexual Conviction Record Check (SCRC) Scheme in three phases to cover the self-employed, volunteers, and all existing employees. He added that the volunteers, including the university orientation camp organizers, would be covered by the end of next year. When the first two phases are operating smoothly, the scheme will be extended to the existing employees and other self-employed individuals. Tang also added that there would be sufficient security measures at the fingerprint collection kiosks to ensure no foul play. The SCRC scheme enables employers of organizations or enterprises that engage persons in undertaking child-related or mentally incapacitated person-related work to request eligible employees to apply for sexual conviction record check in order to ascertain whether they have any conviction records.
