Management Information Sheet

CRB Clearance for Norfolk Community Health and Care (NCH&C) Employees

MI Sheet TypeInformation
MI Number:202/10
Publication Date:15/10/2010 12:00:00
LA Contact:Terry Cook (01603 307778)
Audience:All Headteachers and Chairs of Governors

CRB Clearance for Norfolk Community Health and Care (NCH&C) Employees

Norfolk Community Health and Care (NCH&C) would like to provide you with assurance of Norfolk Community Health and Care's Policy and Standards in relation to staff Criminal Record Bureau checks.

NCH&C receive a number of requests from schools and children's centres across the county requesting CRB information for our staff. We understand your need for your assurance regarding this issue but would like to suggest that this MI sheet is used as a formal statement from the organisation in order to prevent the need for the organisation having to respond to numerous individual requests. We can confirm that the organisation ensures that CRB checks are carried out for all staff whose posts are deemed to meet the criteria of a standard or enhanced check and are therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. In accordance with safer staffing guidance and best practice all new starters and all existing staff employed by the organisation who are employed with a post that meets the criteria for either a standard or enhanced CRB check will have a CRB check carried out by the organisation every 3 years. Where our staff are required to work in school and children's centres and can therefore confirm that enhanced checks are carried out for these posts.

All NCH&C employees working as partners in schools and children's centres would expect, in addition to the confirmations in this letter, to show their identity on entry to the site with identity badges. At the same time they would expect to sign in and out of the provision.

Barbara Wilson
Director of HR, Anna Morgan
Director of Service Pathways Norfolk Community Health and Care (NCH&C)