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I work as a head gardener for a local authority and i use free labour in the form of volunteers, community payback and work experience.
However, the subject of a CRB check has cropped up. I work with payback men and women on a daily basis but in a few weeks, i'm due to be working with one or two year 11 students on work experience from the school.
Should i be CRB checked ? if so, who's responsible for it....the school or my employers ?
Also, my wife works in a care home so she knows about CRB checks and i asked her about working with vulnerable adults.....to which she replied "everybody over 18 is now considered vulnerable"
Does that mean every employee should be CRB checked ?
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However, the subject of a CRB check has cropped up. I work with payback men and women on a daily basis but in a few weeks, i'm due to be working with one or two year 11 students on work experience from the school.
Should i be CRB checked ? if so, who's responsible for it....the school or my employers ?
Also, my wife works in a care home so she knows about CRB checks and i asked her about working with vulnerable adults.....to which she replied "everybody over 18 is now considered vulnerable"
Does that mean every employee should be CRB checked ?
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>>>to which she replied "everybody over 18 is now considered vulnerable"
WRONG! No employer (or voluntary organisation) can carry out a DBS check on an employee unless the work (or voluntary activity) falls within one of the categories listed within the Annex to this document:
https:/ /www.go v.uk/go vernmen t/uploa ds/syst em/uplo ads/att achment _data/f ile/409 805/DBS _guide_ eligibi lity_v7 .pdf
(In Scotland a more basic level of check, which doesn't show spent convictions, is available to ALL employers but, as you're in the south of England, it's not relevant here).
While the Secretary of State for Education places a requirement upon schools to carry out DBS checks on all school staff who have regular contact with children, it's accepted that it would not be practical for schools to have DBS checks carried out on all adults that young people might encounter during work experience programmes. (As someone who's spent hundreds of hours trying to persuade employers to take school students on work experience, I can tell you that such schemes simply couldn't exist if an extra strand of red tape was applied to them). Schools simply have to take 'reasonable measures' to ensure the safety and well-being of their pupils on work experience schemes.
So you do NOT require a DBS check.
>>>to which she replied "everybody over 18 is now considered vulnerable"
WRONG! No employer (or voluntary organisation) can carry out a DBS check on an employee unless the work (or voluntary activity) falls within one of the categories listed within the Annex to this document:
https:/
(In Scotland a more basic level of check, which doesn't show spent convictions, is available to ALL employers but, as you're in the south of England, it's not relevant here).
While the Secretary of State for Education places a requirement upon schools to carry out DBS checks on all school staff who have regular contact with children, it's accepted that it would not be practical for schools to have DBS checks carried out on all adults that young people might encounter during work experience programmes. (As someone who's spent hundreds of hours trying to persuade employers to take school students on work experience, I can tell you that such schemes simply couldn't exist if an extra strand of red tape was applied to them). Schools simply have to take 'reasonable measures' to ensure the safety and well-being of their pupils on work experience schemes.
So you do NOT require a DBS check.
Yes and to add to 'chico's excellent and comprehensive answer, the policy of the organisation concerned is irrelevant. DBS checks can only be requested if the position is listed in the guidance. Just coming into contact with children from time to time does not make the position eligible for a check. (For example, a worker in a sweet shop often deals with children, but would not needd a DBS check).