Essex County Council carried out 22,000 CRB checks in a year (From Echo)
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Essex County Council carried out 22,000 CRB checks in a year
8:30am Monday 13th February 2012 in Basildon
Essex County Council carried out 22,000 CRB checks in a year
ESSEX County Council carried out more criminal records bureau checks than any other local authority last year, figures reveal.
Staff at County Hall made almost 22,000 checks in 2011.
It could have cost the county’s taxpayers as much as £1million.
The council ranked 13th highest out of more than 2,000 organisations carrying out checks.
Campaign group Big Brother Watch revealed three million checks were completed last year.
A spokesman for Essex County Council said the authority undertakes checks for many organisations and services, such as other public sector organisations, charities, social care providers and schools.
Private companies topped the list with Atlantic Data making 180,995 checks and CRB-checking firm TMGCRB making 122,874.
The Scout Association made 58,786 checks, ranking it fifth, while Essex County Council was listed 13th and the highest authority after making 21,908.
The Home Office criticised the amount the system is used and confirmed reforms are taking place.
Comments(10)
Brunning999
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9:43am Mon 13 Feb 12
Big brother watch who the hell ate they other than another left wing inspired human rights for non humans group no doubt.
Cuthbert
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10:10am Mon 13 Feb 12
Obviously staff / volunteers working with vulnerable people will need to be checked and also you wouldn't want a fraudster in charge of a large budget for example.
However, if the purpose is to exclude everyone who's committed even a minor misdemeanour from many years back from working for the Council, then there is a danger of creating a work apartheid, which can't benefit society in the long run.
totallyfootball
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10:16am Mon 13 Feb 12
concernedrefuture
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11:56am Mon 13 Feb 12
Cuthbert
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12:24pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Why can't I read about the fire in the thatched cottage? I can see there are loads of comments about it (as there are about other items I've previously read) Was it someone spamming?
Minceir
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11:04pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Brunning999 wrote:What?
Is there a problem with this fact then?
Big brother watch who the hell ate they other than another left wing inspired human rights for non humans group no doubt.
Boris
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12:28am Tue 14 Feb 12
Minceir wrote:Ignore him, he is a known loony.
Brunning999 wrote:What?
Is there a problem with this fact then?
Big brother watch who the hell ate they other than another left wing inspired human rights for non humans group no doubt.
Sdapeze
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9:27am Tue 14 Feb 12
Minceir
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2:25pm Tue 14 Feb 12
Boris wrote:Yes i have read some of his other posts, is he perhaps hallucination most of the time? perhaps he lives next door to a mushroom factory!
Minceir wrote:Ignore him, he is a known loony.
Brunning999 wrote:What?
Is there a problem with this fact then?
Big brother watch who the hell ate they other than another left wing inspired human rights for non humans group no doubt.
In one of his post he tries to convince people that Basildon council didn't know before they evicted people from Dale Farm at a cost of up to £30,000,000 that they were preparing a list of Green belt land they were going to build on! He seems to think this only came about in the 4 months since the eviction.
wellnow says...
9:00am Mon 13 Feb 12