We know that volunteering is still a fairly middle-class construct. Volunteers tend to be well-educated and tend to be on higher ends of the income scale. We'd like to see some analysis done of the economic barriers to volunteering. Many volunteers can't participate in volunteering because of the costs associated with it, and many organizations are not in a position to support some of the direct costs associated with volunteering. We'd like to see a system that could support some recognition of the direct costs, supporting them in kind, perhaps in funding initiatives, and that would ask organizations to quantify the costs associated with volunteering.
Police checks are important, because of course volunteers who are working with vulnerable groups want their clients to be safe. Police checks are one component of a more robust screening package, though. We would like, and we have some work underway with the Department of Public Safety right now to develop, some real tools to support organizations to implement broad-based screening practices. Having those broad practices, based on a risk assessment, will actually minimize the number of police checks that happen.