management committee minutes

[P2B]

An aside on CRB delays:

I got my CRB check renewed for tour this summer - the whole process was quite quick... but the delay came when my documents (ID documents I sent off to BOF) came back recorded delivery. I was at work when they arrived, so had to go to the post office to collect them. Not a problem, only BOF had incorrectly addressed the package to 'Mrs France' (NOT my surname, or anything approaching it!) Trying to get my passport/driving licence back from the post office proved more difficult than I care to bore you with here!

Luckily my CRB check has my real name on it!

[roadrunner]

Correct me if I'm wrong here am I right in thinking:

A CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) check is not a legal requirement for anything.
It relates to any criminal activity, speeding , fraud, theft, not just child abuse or sexual offences.
It is something that a responsible organisation will undertake to satisfy itself that someone should be trusted in a given 'sensitive' role within that organisation.

It says "this person has broken these laws", nothing more. It then allows the organisation to make a judgement on whether to trust the person in the role in question.
It does not say " this person is safe for x, y, z"
It is not a qualification, you don't go on the "good person" register
This is why people end up undergoing multiple CRBs because it is the organisation that requests it and the organisation that must judge it.

I agree that each organisation that's asking for a CRB check will want to judge the information for itself - maybe with a different emphasis. But that shouldn't mean that you have to do the whole check again - it just means that the same information needs to be sent to several organisations. If the system were set up to allow that, I'm sure the delays in conducting the checks would be reduced.