Friends,
If I may add a comment on this? I think you are in danger of breaking the law in requesting a CRB from a candidate.
As far as I know an employer, organisation or licensing authority can only ask someone to apply for a CRB check if they are or will be working in a position listed in the Exceptions Order to Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. I think elected volunteers have the same protection in law as paid employees, and being nosey isn't a valid reason in law.
I am the CEO of a UK children's charity, and have been on the board of a total of ten companies. I have also been a CEO of seven or eight companies with large retail databases. I have never been asked for a CRB. Some of the charity's employees get CRBs (ones who are put in charge of children) but these things are not generally used for this kind of role. Our trustees are not CRBed.
Andrew Cates (aka BozMo)
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Well, those doesn't "required" a CRB check. It's a question of whether the board or the community decide that it would be in its best interest to obtain one.
I agree the final decision is the board's (possibly with the advice of their solicitor and the charities commission), I believe that's what I said in my first email...
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