Thirty-eight teaching and childcare recruiters have been hit with warnings from the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) inspectorate for failing to comply with the law. Eleven agencies were found to be not following correct processes when carrying out identity and qualification checks on people they planned to supply for work. The EAS made sure the agencies changed the way they carried out the checks. As part of Operation Hazard, EAS inspectors visited 50 agencies in towns and cities including London, Birmingham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and found 140 breaches.