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Heres a conudrum, we have been doing work for the local authority for about 25 years !. Suddenly the work gradually dries up without any explanation and any attempts at finding out why the work has evaporated in our direction has been unsucessuful.
We now find that the local authority has new staff and new ways of allocating work to contractors and we have been supplied with a extensive form running about eight pages which requires all manner of info such as the normal stuff, PLI, Banking details, Health & Safety Policy and Implementation, Etc, Etc.
However they now say we must be Police Checked and Cleared which goes for the company as well as anyone sent to their sites and that we as a company have to bear the full costs of these checks.
I have no experience of this type of check or any idea of the costs involved. Do any of you here do this type of work and if so do you have any ideas about any of this.
Thanks
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squadman wrote:I have no experience of this type of check or any idea of the costs involved.
They probably are referring to a ‘CRB check’ I expect? 😉
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I run a karate club and hire a school hall for the venue. You would not believe the forms ,checks & charters we have to submit to satisfy the city council. There all doing now – threat of litigation i suppose!
Use to be one form, now reams & reams of them – looking on the bright side though keeps out the rif-raf! We get our crb checks done through the karate Association about £10.00.
Brian.
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senseib wrote:
We get our crb checks done through the karate Association about £10.00.
Now if only we had viable Association 😉
Jim.
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Yes its a CRB check, but the CRB site states that self employed people cannot get a check on themselves. It gets harder to go to work these days with all this redtape.
Does any one know the actual cost of a CRB check ?
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I am a foster carer and got an enhanced CRB check done before I was approved by the county council. IIRC it costs about £40 to get one done, takes about 4 weeks and will tell the council if you farted in public in the last 25 years. My check brought up an offence at Wembley 26 years ago but then Scotland beat England 1-0 in that game so it was excused 😆 :scots:
John
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If your work brings you into contact with children or the elderly in council premises the council should have a copy of an enhanced CRB check done. They will ask you to fill out a 4 page form IIRC and return it to them. It takes about four weeks and a copy is sent to both you and the council. When I got checked the county council paid for it and I was told it cost about £40 to get done buy I will bet it will cost a lot more if you, as a business, had to pay the local council to get it done.
The silly part is that as soon as you get it done the CRB is out of date, you could beat a pensioner up the day after you get it and the council would never know!!!
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My CRB check in March 2004 cost £13.60. Hampshire County Council Trading Standards Office sent in the ‘Disclosure Application’ to the Scottish Criminal Records Office ‘Disclosure Scotland’. They carry all the latest CRB records of the UK and return your ‘Disclosure Certificate’ within 3 weeks usually.
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