New Regulations have been laid in Parliament to set out which Police data sources will be searched by the CRB.  An Enhanced CRB check will now focus on a more targeted search method and one that will continue to provide customers with information about convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings and any non-conviction information held locally by the police.

Applicants’ details will no longer be sent to police forces based solely on their five year address history, where CRB’s matching process has already determined, by interrogating police information systems, that no other information is held about them by the police.  The only exception to this will be where the occupation of the applicant is to be principally home-based, where it will remain important for the police to conduct a greater degree of checking based on the home address of the applicant.

CRB state that the changes will significantly reduce the public perception of unnecessary intrusion into citizens’ private lives, reduce waiting times, improve customer satisfaction and more importantly, they should not increase the risk to the vulnerable.

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