How do i get a crb check

grahtyl

Hi any ideas of how i can get a crb done for a personal licence appilcation? i did a course but never got told how to do the check

d123

I was under the impression that the prospective employer actually applies for the CRB check.

Who can apply for a CRB Check?

CRB checks cannot be obtained by members of the public directly but are only available to organisations and only for those professions, offices, employments, work and occupations listed in the Exceptions Order to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
For this reason your application will be processed either by your employer, if it is registered with the CRB, or a third party organisation, called an Umbrella Body, which is registered with the CRB.

http://www.crb.gov.uk/using_the_website/applicant.aspx#whocan

elsien

Yes, I agree with d123:
from the crb site

How do I apply for a CRB Check?

An individual cannot make an application for a Disclosure directly, and the Disclosure service does not apply to those people who are self-employed. This is because there needs to be an independent person who makes the decision to employ an individual having assessed that they pose no threat to either children or vulnerable adults in their care. If a person is self-employed there is no independent third party to make that decision.
There are two ways of applying for a CRB check. You will either be asked to:

<LI class="">telephone the Disclosure application line on 0870 90 90 844, in which case you will need to provide the Registered Body name and number (Please have this information to hand when calling), or
• complete a paper application form handed to you by the person who asked you to apply

Delboy24

All mine were always done by employer

toasterman

I've had two in the last few years, for different organisations.
In both cases, I gave them proof of ID, details, and permission to carry out the check, and they checked it for me.
Neither time did I have to pay anything.

Shiny.Side.Up

Why do you want one done? In my experience, companies like to do their own anyway?

purple12

I don't think it's a matter of companies liking to do their own but they have to do their own. I have at the moment, three concurrent CRBs all taken by different organisations - two within about a month of each other because no organisation could accept any of the other ones!

(and I don't have three jobs but needed then for voluntary work and fostering as well as my substantive post!).

nexuss

I was given a piece of paper and took it to the police station myself.I then showed the returned slip to my employer who refunded me.

grahtyl

i need one so i can get my licence to run a pub/bar - i left the company before all the checks were done but after i got the bii quailifcation

LittleVoice

nexuss wrote: »

I was given a piece of paper and took it to the police station myself.I then showed the returned slip to my employer who refunded me.

That's not a CRB check but obtaining a Police Certificate.

As already indicated, a CRB check would need to be initiated by a potential employer.

clairec79

purple12 wrote: »

I don't think it's a matter of companies liking to do their own but they have to do their own. I have at the moment, three concurrent CRBs all taken by different organisations - two within about a month of each other because no organisation could accept any of the other ones!

I think that does depend I know when I changed my job they accepted my old one was it was still new, however unless that was because it was all NHS albeit different trusts