{
  "id": 6723269,
  "title": "No verified provincial data on educator checks against sex-offender and child-protection registers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/no-verified-provincial-data-on-educator-checks-against-sex-offender",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-11T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/capetimes/news/2026-09-11-no-verified-provincial-data-on-educator-checks-against-sex-offender-and-child-protection-registers/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube says her department does not have verified year-by-year provincial data on educators vetted against the National Register for Sex Offenders and National Child Protection Register since 2019.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}