Home Department written question – answered at on 7 March 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reasons the results of Criminal Records Bureau searches on individuals are not transferable between organisations with the individual's consent.
holding answer
Disclosures are primarily designed to be used by an employer at the point of recruitment for a particular position. Ultimately it is for each employer and not the CRB to decide whether a fresh disclosure should be applied for, bearing in mind their legal and other responsibilities and subject to any statutory requirements. There are a number of reasons why an employer may not wish to accept a disclosure that has been processed for a previous employment position, including:
The disclosure may not be at the right level (there are two different levels of CRB check; standard and enhanced);
The older a disclosure is the less reliable the information is, because the information it contains may not be up to date;
Information revealed through a CRB check reflects the information that was available at the time of its issue—a person may have committed a crime in the intervening period;
An organisation or employer may be required by law to carry out a fresh check against the Protection of Children Act list (PoCA) and/or the Protection of Vulnerable Adults Act list (POVA), thereby limiting the use of portability.
Yes2 people think so
No2 people think not
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Deborah Phillips
Posted on 12 Mar 2007 8:35 pm (Report this annotation)
The question is not really answered, you have given several reasons why it might be expected to be carried out by a new employer, but the question was why is it not transferable, i think that is a good question because i had 4 carried out in the space of 2 months to enhanced level and i had to pay for them all. You are given a reference number that is logged by the employer, since it is required for nurses if they work for several agency's they have to have one done for each agency, this is really stupid, no wonder the checks take so long to come back, the crb are over loaded with applications probably being repeated for the same person several times (they must like paper work) or is it another way for the labour goverment to get money from the good people in society. Once you have one done you have a number so one every six months would be better than one for every employer if it is clear.