Red tape and bureaucratic hurdles are getting in the way of people volunteering, the commission on the future of volunteering said on Sunday.

Criminal Records Bureau checks that are probably “disproportionate in relation to any actual risk” and which have to be repeated each time people change how or where they volunteer are putting people off. So does excess form filling and training requirements, the commission, chaired by Baroness Neuberger, the prime minister’s adviser on volunteering, said.