Are charities carrying out unnecessary CRB checks?
It's been just over a year since a scandal hit the press concerning people working for some of the UK's best-known charities. Charities both large and small have been reassessing their processes and procedures. Many have started running CRB checks on more people than they did before. However, does a recent report suggest that they've gone a bit far in their checking? CRB Checks and Charities Charities are subject to exactly the same rules about CRB checking as every other business. Charities can't make up their own minds about who should have disclosure checks and who shouldn't. Many of the allegations made about charity workers concerned incidents which didn't take place in the UK. The people involved weren't UK nationals. Therefore, charities couldn't have run CRB checks or disclosure checks…