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Future Services
The Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS ) is a service that the
CRB will conduct on behalf of the Independent Safeguarding Authority
(
ISA
) .
The ISA scheme replaces the PoCA , PoVA and List 99 data
but will go further by removing the need to consider this
information to make a decision to employ.
Under the new Scheme an individual will apply to register to
work with children and/or vulnerable adults. The CRB will provide
data to the ISA for it to make a decision about whether the
individual should be registered - and therefore be able to work
with people in the sector(s) for which application has been made -
or barred from work in that/those sectors. Where a decision to bar
has been made an employer commits an offence if (s)he choses to
employ that individual
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E-Applications
The CRB has
made it part of its strategic plan to make its services accessible
electronically wherever possible.
The CRB already offers its largest customers the ability to
submit multiple applications in an electronic form directly,
without the need to produce paper applications or send them by
post. This can be used by organisations that gather the
information, for their own recruitment purposes, that the CRB
requires for its application
The CRB is also considering developing a process that
allows individuals to complete an online application form for
submission, via the Registered Body, to the CRB. This process is
still under construction because a system needs to be designed to
allow the safe completion and transfer of a completed application
form from the applicant to the Employer and possibly onto an
Umbrella Body and from there to the CRB and potentially vice
versa.
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Basic Disclosures
Basic Disclosures are the third product defined within the
Police Act 1997 and would be a certificate that would reveal either
a person has no unspent convictions or the unspent conviction
details.
The CRB is
working on the feasibility and technical system for these checks
which may, initially be linked to the UK's National Identity
Service and its ID cards.
Basic Disclosures are currently offered by Disclosure Scotland.
Click here to vist the
Disclosure Scotland website (new window)
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Right to Work Checks
When a person comes to the UK they will usually be issued with a
visa that describes the purpose of the visit i.e. tourist, student
etc. Each of these can carry restrictions on what the person can do
in the UK during the term of the visa.
The Right to Work check will provide those employers that use it
to meet statutory requirements and ensure that the people
they employ are not subject to restrictions on their ability
to work.
Any person who employs an individual with such restrictions
and cannot show that they have made sufficient checks to clarify
their right to work status can face a fine
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