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Urgent, help CRB.

Legacy_user · 2011-11-01 06:21:18

Hi all. Ok, I have had problems getting work etc then I thought I'd go for the career change and so on. I'm a female painter and decorator, get offers for work in the commercial sector BUT they want a CRB. I can't get it as I have no employment offered and the industry seems to work, that if you don't have one there is no…

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kingfisherblue Posts: 9,203 Forumite

1 November 2011 at 10:37PM

brutus1983 wrote: »

" Strictly, employers are not entitled to CRB's unless the job is with vulnerable people."

not true

ive had to get seperate crbs to work on millitary bases, prisons, power stations, bullion banks, police station, hospitals, airports

I agree - although some of the above may only require a basic check. Working with vulnerable people would usually require an enhanced CRB disclosure.

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