Sunita Mason’s 2009 report
Sunita Mason was appointed the Independent Advisor for Criminality Information Management in September 2009 to consider issues arising as a result of the ‘five constables’ case and increasing public...
View ArticleJustice quangos spared cull
Ministers have withdrawn 18 bodies from the Public Bodies Bill, which contains the list of 192 bodies to be abolished or scrapped and the 118 to be merged. The Parole Board, the Criminal Cases Review...
View ArticleReaction to VBS & CRB changes
On BBC News, Mark Williams-Thomas a ex-policeman and specialist in child safeguarding gave the following interview: Click to play See also our page tracking stakeholder comments
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Scale of CRB checks on Volunteers
The Daily Mail reported on a press release by the Manifesto Club about the scale of volunteer vetting. “Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that almost a million checks were...
View ArticlePQ on EU Criminal Record exchange
In a Parliamentary Question Anas Sarwar asked what steps the Home Office is taking to increase sharing of criminal records files with other EU member states. Lynne Featherstone replied in a written...
View ArticleUnlawful arrest compensation for teacher
A Birmingham teacher who was unlawfully arrested after being accused of assaulting a pupil has been awarded £1,000 compensation at the High Court. Mark Richardson, 39, was arrested even though he...
View ArticlePolice pick up charging powers from CPS
The power to decide charges for those suspected of crimes will be passed from the Crown Prosecution Service to the police under plans announced by the Home Secretary on 9th May. Theresa May said the...
View ArticleLaunch of Police National Database
The new Police National Database ((PND) will be launched nationally on 23 June 2011. The information held on the PND is not new information but comes from existing force systems that support force...
View ArticleImplications of CRB/ DBS Filtering for Employers
Following the introduction of filtering certain convictions and cautions from DBS certificates on 29th May 2013, Employers will not be able to take certain old and minor cautions and convictions into...
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