Nursery World - Give us the facts on CRB, says MP

The full report of last year's independent inquiry into the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) should be revealed by the Government, say the Liberal Democrats. To date only a summary of the report's main findings and recommendations have been published. Paul Burstow, MP for Sutton and Cheam, last week called on the Home Office, which oversees the CRB, to seek the agreement of Capita, which runs the CRB, to waive commercial confidentiality and to publish in full the report produced last autumn by an independent review team led by millionaire businessman Patrick Carter.

To date only a summary of the report's main findings and recommendations have been published. Paul Burstow, MP for Sutton and Cheam, last week called on the Home Office, which oversees the CRB, to seek the agreement of Capita, which runs the CRB, to waive commercial confidentiality and to publish in full the report produced last autumn by an independent review team led by millionaire businessman Patrick Carter.

Mr Burstow, who is also an NSPCC ambassador in the House of Commons, said, 'This Government agency has delayed or postponed hundreds of thousands of checks on people who look after young children unsupervised, go into elderly people's homes alone, care for patients in hospitals, and work with the victims of rape, sexual offences and other crimes.'

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