The government is, from 6 December 2010, changing the arrangements relating to what information is to be made available in respect of an Enhanced CRB Disclosure certificate.
Currently, the CRB asks every police force for the areas in which an applicant has resided for the past five years if they have any information that they consider ought to be disclosed in light of the occupation (or proposed occupation) of the applicant. This is what causes much delay in the provision of CRB Disclosures.
As from 6 December 2010, the CRB will only ask the police force for the area in which the applicant currently resides (i.e. not all for the areas in which they have resided in the past five years) if convictions or cautions are recorded against the applicant, or if the applicant’s position (occupation) is to be primarily carried out in the applicant’s home (e.g. child minders).
That should help to speed up the provision of CRBs, but will that mean that people who might not genuinely be “fit and proper people” get licensed, because councils won’t always get the information that they would have got before?
The relevant statutory instrument that is sneaking this one in is at:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2702/pdfs/uksi_20102702_en.pdf
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