HURRY UP, CRB
If you are waiting to start a job that relies on a Criminal Records Bureau check, then be prepared for a long, long wait.
My colleague and I have been waiting four months to be registered as childminders. We submitted our CRB applications in December and received enhanced disclosures in February. However, my 82-year-old mother lives with me, so she too has to be CRB checked, and her disclosure is still being processed.
I have contacted the CRB regularly to check its progress both online and by telephone. They have repeatedly informed me that they have 'escalated' the check, made it 'high priority' and contacted the police on several occasions, so there is nothing more I can do but wait.
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