Social services CRB/vetting

verysillyguy06

StrangelyBrown wrote: »

Ah, the same one that children's authors were up in arms about because they'd have to be 'checked' before visiting schools?

I thought that was on hold or something. Plus, didn't think it applied to one-off in-family arrangements?

Getting a bit more confused now about what checks can and can't be done without my knowledge.

What we do is a Police Check...we call the Police to find out if you are known but we cannot do this without talking to you. And only if the child is on a CP plan....we ask parents to provide details of any person that cares for the child unsupervised...does not need to be only away overnight

ali-t

StrangelyBrown wrote: »

It's more the "authority to check out the adults" that I was querying in terms of exactly what they can check without informing me. And in addition to what they are requesting - who exactly are they disclosing it to?

They would have checked out the social services database to see if you are known, if you have anything previous of any concern like offences against children or drugs offences in your background. Police checks could also be done looking at offences and intelligence held on you but as far as I am aware there is no national protocol on sharing this information.