01/03/2010

CRB Checks - wouldn't it be easier to count those of us who don't have to have one..?

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Q: How many people will have to be CRB checked in the first year of the new scheme?

A: 1.77 million

And that's the government's estimate, so it's safe to say it's a minimum...

By Alex Deane

Alex Deane
By Alex Deane
1 Mar 2010 11:39:31 | Privacy

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alastair

The very fact that we have organisations with such Orwellian names as the "Independent Safeguarding Authority" or the "Criminal Records Bureau" says it all, I think.

New Labour even renamed Her Majesty's Stationery Office (a perfectly good name) to the Office of Public Sector Information (pure Orwell if ever I've seen it).

One wonders whether Gordon understands that 1984 is not to be taken as an operations manual?

Posted by: alastair | 01/03/2010 at 12:58 PM

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