Long-overdue legislation to create a new statutory body to safeguard children and vulnerable adults will undergo detailed scrutiny in the House of Keys today (Tuesday).

The Safeguarding Bill aims to give a statutory footing to a single Safeguarding Board, replacing the two, separate - and non-statutory - boards for children and adults that exist currently.

Putting such a safeguarding body onto a statutory footing was first called for more than a decade ago and Policy and Reform Minister Chris Thomas, who will be guiding the bill through the clauses stage, has admitted his frustration at how long it has taken.

Expect there to be some closes scrutiny, however. Tim Baker (Ayre and Michael) who expressed concern at the second reading stage that there was gradation of obligations upon different types of organisation and business, has amendments planned.

The Dogs (Amendment) Bill is almost off the leash and ready to become law, but not before the House of Keys verifies its approval of amendments made by the Legislative Council. Once it does become law, it will pave the way for micro-chipping to replace the current dog licensing system.

Treasury department member Bill Shimmins (Middle) will seek general approval to the principles of the Credit Unions (Amendment) Bill, by placing it for a second reading. It aims to update legislation dating back to 1993 that required credit unions to be registered - under the provisions of a 19th Century act. Instead, if this bill is approved, credit unions would be required to register with the Financial Services Authority and be subject to the requirements of the Financial Services Act of 2008, which is probably a little more up to date.

There are more questions tabled for written answer than for oral answer on this week’s agenda.

Rob Callister (Onchan) has a number on increases on the number of government employees in certain pay bands, as well as the current pension liability.

He also has a question for oral answer about the ’imbalance’ between employee contributions and benefits paid into the central government pension scheme.

Other topics that will be subject to verbal jousting include the TV licence rebate for over-75s, the drug and alcohol advisory service contract, use of green lanes and concerns raised by the information commissioner over the creation of a single resident record.

Up the stairs, in Legislative Council, two bills have arrived for first readings. First is the Road Transport, Licensing and Registration (Amendment) Bill, which among other things will pave the way for number-plate recognition to replace the need for tax discs.

Second, is the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill, which is mainly a tidying up exercise for the current legislation, rather than any dramatic change to people’s rights of access to information held by government bodies.