Crb checks

[eggsarascal]

What do you know about crb checks ?

 

A mate of mine as just applied for a job as a satalite tv installer and he's been asked to have a crb check, all ok up to know but..... In his early days he was a bit of a lad, to say the least, he as alot of convictions, drugs, theft, drink driving, fraud the list is endless.

 

He's not been in any kind of trouble in the past twenty years not even a speeding ticket, so are these convictions "spent" or will they show up on the crb, because if they do i think he will be snookered, and alot of the adult population will be in the same boat if these checks become more widely used.

 

So, what do you know ?

[Justme]

Will depend if they want an enhanced one or a standard one. Normally enhanced are saved for people that work with children or the vulnerable.

[Paul Jenks]

CRB has to be initiated by the body for whom your company wants to work. You don't just go to CRB and get checked.

Technically you have to have a seperate check commissioned by each client who requires one. I.e. If your company expects you to work in a school. a housing association or 2 and a hospital you should be checked by all of them seperately. In reality one check will usually suffice.

If the check comes up with a chequered past your employer may be asked by the companies for whom you are going to work to produce a risk assessment and management strategy to monitor and audit behaviour whilst working on their sites.

In summary, get your mate to be honest with his employer, and get him to help with the risk assessments etc. Then when the past rears it's slightly disfigured head they already know what to expect and how to deal with it.

 

When I had mine done the risk assessment paperwork came back from the county council asking whether a)I'd notified my employer of the offences and b)If not why not.

I replied that whilst interviewing myself for the position of managing director of my own company I didn't feel the need to remind myself of an offence of breaking and entering when I was 14 years old and felt that the likelihood of this being an issue in the persuance of my day to day activities was doubtful.:lol: