CRB Checks
BAND offers a comprehensive Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) Disclosure service which is available to our full and affiliated member groups, for paid or voluntary staff working with children or young people. All of our checks are processed as Enhanced Disclosures. The Enhanced Disclosure checks:
- The Police National Computer
- Local Police Records
- I.S.A. barred lists
BAND can process up to 50 checks per group per year. We cannot run checks on staff who would normally be checked by Ofsted.
How to Access CRB Checks through BAND
If you are already a full or affiliated member of BAND and you would like to contract into the CRB Check system, you can phone us on 0117 914 3007 or email us at crbchecks@bandltd.org.uk For information on how to become a member of BAND, click here
Fees (including BAND admin fee)
- £55 for each paid staff member
- £10 for each voluntary staff member
For further information on the CRB Disclosure service, please contact: www.crb.homeoffice.gov.uk.
Supporting Documents
If you are a BAND member group who is currently contracted into the BAND CRB Disclosure Service click on the links below for supporting documents and forms:
Click here for a Microsoft Word version of the BAND 1 form.
Click here for a Microsoft Word version of the Employer Guidance.
Click here for a PDF version of the Continuation Sheet.
Independent Safegaurding Authority
15th June 2010: The Govt have announced today that the Independent Safeguarding Authority Vetting and Barring Scheme due to be introduced from July 26th will now be postponed pending a review.
Although the Scheme is halted whilst the Government undertakes its review, new safeguarding regulations introduced in October 2009 continue to apply. These include:
- A person who is barred from working with children or vulnerable adults will be breaking the law if they work or volunteer, or try to work or volunteer with those groups.
- An organisation which knowingly employs someone who is barred to work with those groups will also be breaking the law.
- If your organisation works with children or vulnerable adults and you dismiss a member of staff or a volunteer because they have harmed a child or vulnerable adult, or you would have done so if they had not left, you must tell the Independent Safeguarding Authority.