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• It should set up a Security Clearance Forum to bring together CabinetOffice, recruitment agencies and contractors, and specialist legal andtechnical advisors, under an independent chair, to review currentperformance in adhering to guidelines and to encourage fruitfulconversations about these matters between them. The Forum would alsoimplement the other recommendations in this Report. By bringingtogether the Cabinet Office, recruitment agencies and contractors, underan independent chair, to review current performance in adhering toguidelines and to encourage meaningful change, real improvements inpractice could best be achieved.• If the failure of a functioning regulatory regime is the result of a lack ofresource, this must be expeditiously addressed. The guidelines are thereto be met, not ignored.• The DVA believes there is evidence that end-users may ask for aninappropriately high level of clearance for some contracts where muchlower levels of clearance are necessary: this should be urgentlyinvestigated by the Cabinet Office.• Finally, because it is not in the national interest that best qualifiedcontractors be kept from appropriate work through a failure to ensureguidelines and regulations are properly adhered to, if new legislation toprevent this from happening is what it will take (and this may well not benecessary), then the government should consider doing precisely this.In respect of PCG specifically we recommend that• PCG develops a compelling and well-informed lobbying and media strategyto draw attention to the problems facing freelancers in respect of thevetting system as currently being applied.• PCG collects, collates and analyses any evidence showing that theguidelines have been breached whether by government end-users or byrecruitment agencies or their sub-agents and that PCG puts such evidencebefore the government, Parliament and the Recruitment and EmploymentConfederation (REC).28
• PCG acts as intermediary between its members, the freelancers, and therecruitment agencies in order to do away with the existing „Catch-22‟situation and to prevent any blacklisting of PCG members by agencies.• PCG should monitor developments in this field.29
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