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What Is A Registered Body At CRB (England)?
July 01, 2012 - A registered body is an organisation that is registered to access the CRB checking service. Registered bodies are entitled to ask exempted questions under the Exceptions Order to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 Exceptions Order 1975 and access the CRB's services to check the staff that they recruit directly to eligible posts. Some registered bodies may also undertake checks for other organisations that provide eligible positions but which are not themselves directly registered with the CRB. This is referred to as offering an umbrella service. Organisations who offer an umbrella service are entitled to countersign applications on behalf of people or organisations that are entitled to ask exempted questions....
Canadian Students Get More Than They Ask For
July 01, 2012 - Protesting students may be collecting photos, videos and placards as souvenirs from these heady revolutionary days, but those who are arrested and...
Checking English Driving Licences
July 01, 2012 - English, Welsh and Scottish driving licence numbers contain information about the applicant's name, sex and date of birth. This information is...
South Africans Start Suing Over Criminal Record Errors
July 01, 2012 - A man from Zwartkop, Centurion (South Africa), who had a "criminal record" for the past 20 years, of which he only became aware through a...
UK: 5.4 Million Drivers Have Driving License Points
July 01, 2012 - The UK insurance industry makes millions from speed cameras, while the Transport Minister uses a detector to avoid his own ticket cameras. N...
Workplace Fraud In Canada Cost $3.2B
July 01, 2012 - A report has found that workplace fraud cost small businesses in Canada $3.2 billion last year. In addition, the report noted that roughl...
A Million Brits Go To Work High Every Day
July 01, 2012 - The use of narcotics has shot up by 43 per cent in just five years, according to analysis of almost 1.7million random tests in 856 British workplac...
How Many People Work In The USA And Are Still Poor?
June 01, 2012 - In 2011, the US Department of Labor reported at least 10 million people worked and were still below the unrealistic official US poverty line, an in...
Unemployment Spurs Background Check Scams
June 01, 2012 - Hundreds of desperate job seekers have paid £50 for a criminal records check to clinch a job that doesn't exist. Many turned up for t...
Metro Manila Courts Visited By Steven Brownstein
May 01, 2012 - This trip, May 2012, Steven Brownstein has so far visited these courts: Manila City Quezon City Makati City Paranaque City...
Americans Renounce Citizenship In Record Numbers
May 01, 2012 - A year ago, in Action Comics, Superman declared plans to renounce his U.S. citizenship. "'Truth, justice, and the American way' -...
Almost Half Of America Tried Pot
May 01, 2012 - The Netherlands, with its permissive marijuana laws, may be known as the cannabis capital of the world. But a survey published in PLoS Medicine, a...
Nigeria To Start National ID Registration
May 01, 2012 - The Nigerian Identity Management Commission (NIMC) will begin enrolling Nigerian citizens and legal residents into the Nigerian Identity Management...
USA Flubs - More Reasons To Do International Background Checks
May 01, 2012 - The percentage of undocumented deportees with criminal records diminished in the first quarter of the year, even though the U.S. government was spe...
Forcing Teen To Drop Virtual Objects In Online Game Was Real-World Theft
April 01, 2012 - The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a 13-year-old boy to relinquish a virtual mask and amulet in an online game amounted to real-world t...
UK CRB News
April 01, 2012 - The cost of translation services We have received a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for the following: How much did the H...
35pc Of New Lawmakers Have Criminal Records (What's Your Hit Ratio?)
April 01, 2012 - NEW DELHI More than one-third of candidates elected in the just concluded state Assembly elections have criminal cases against them, with Uttar Pra...
Ontario's Highest Court Rules For World's Oldest Profession
April 01, 2012 - A ban on brothels puts prostitutes at risk and is unconstitutional, Ontario's top court has ruled, in a case that is expected to be appealed to...
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