Its not peddled. Its law.

I have three kids, I know what I'm speaking about because I've had to go through the process to join the PTA.

Rick wrote:
I noticed it in parts.

Criminal record checks << Government site.

psketti wrote:
Ok, I've got children too and I only knew about this because there was a note sent home a few months ago with my youngest child saying 'all' parents who volunteer to help out must be CRB checked. Fine, do it.

Ab Origine wrote:
I like the new avatar, teabagging, its just another phrase for 'dropping some bollocks'!

psketti wrote:
Who does the reviews?

Considering they don't want cops in NY with an IQ over 105 I wouldn't trust govt to make the right decision about who gets to look out for kids either...

I had to have one done to mop up arse fat as a porter in a cosmetic surgery place recently. Quite how any of those bastards where 'vulnerable' though, I don't know.

But anyway...what feather said.

andyh wrote:
The CRB check just consists of a slip of paper which indicates any criminal record you may have - I think it comes to you, rather than the party that's ordered it, and you're required to hand it over to them. It includes offences which are deemed to have been 'spent'.

I agree 100% that anyone working with kids or vulnerable people should have the check done.

Lots of would-be employers these days insist on a CRB check being done - not just schools.

The problem lies (and there always does seem to be a problem with matters that should be straight-forward) with the potential employer sometimes failing to use common sense.

I was listening to a programme on the radio a few years ago, where people where ringing in to relate their experiences with it.

One example, was a man who'd been refused a job he'd applied for, because his CRB checked revealed that 30 years previously, he'd gone on some form of social report. He hadn't actually been charged with anything, but had gone a bit off the rails for a while as a youngster (a minor) when his single mum had died. I think he'd had a fight in his school playground. He'd pulled himself round, disassociated from the bad company he'd been keeping, and gone on to study successfully and pass exams with flying colours.

There was tale after tale like this, where CRB results were used against people for the flimsiest of reasons.

The only thing I know about Piers is that he's a smarmy sod - didn't he get away with tax fraud or something?

The fact that we are talking about 'Piers Morgan' indicates how far we have progressed as a forum.

Gives me the creeps .......self satisfying weirdo who sucks Simon Cowells dick , and his own probably smells of cheese

I don't like him

EDIT: Allegedly

jhado wrote:
And the the talent show, that he was a judge on, that made him seem like the most knowledgeable and critical authority on peoples performances on stage, how did he achieve such a position considering some of the others he was on the show with?

andyh wrote:
I see your point andy but the point I was making is that Huntly would never have gotten a job as a janitor in the school those two little girls where at, if the check had been in place before they where murdered.

Tis all a bit catch22 though isn't psketti............


we 'the conspiracy people/freedom fighters {insert the correctterm) are againest the 'State' having details about us

However my mum hat outweighs all my other hats and will say yes vet everyone who work with children.

I know abuse can still happen when invidual are not on the radar , but please, if you can stop even one peodohile nudging themselves into position , this is a good thing

dawnbreak wrote:
He is the cheese that infests my helmet.

Cheesy foreskin wrote:
You have such a way with words, cheesy.

He looks like a muppet and has stupid hair

dawnbreak wrote:
If you are going to be a journalist I think you would require some ruthlessness about you, some are arrogant, but, some people like that in journalism or presenters.
Look at how many people watch Jeremy Kyle and think he is wonderful, I'm surprised he hasn't been chinned.

silvershine wrote:
These two should never be seen in the same sentence

As far as him being chinned... he's untouchable in a sense at the moment. Once his career starts spirallling down the way, I reckon he'll get plenty of what's coming his way

Ab Origine wrote:
I like to think in terms of lies and truth rather than positive or negative myself.

Anybody who works for the scum newspaper is a danger to society and a payed troll

humanspirit wrote:
Are you avin a pop at me ?