Criminal Records Bureaux

The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB), an executive agency of the Home Office, provides access to criminal record and other information to organisations in England and Wales through a service called Disclosure. Its specific purpose is to help organisations make more informed decisions when recruiting people into positions of trust.

The Disclosure service is also available to other professional, licensing and regulatory bodies whose volunteers, employees and licensees are not necessarily in direct contact with the vulnerable, but still need to uphold the highest standards of professional performance and Disclosure can help improve these recruitment decisions as well.

Through the Disclosure service, organisations can provide greater protection for the vulnerable members of our society and afford greater protection to their customers, staff, volunteers and ultimately their organisation.

The CRB's Disclosure service provides access to a range of different types of information, such as, information:

• held on the Police National Computer (PNC), such as, convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings in England, Wales and those recorded from Scotland. There is also some Northern Ireland conviction data held on PNC
• held by local police forces relating to relevant non-conviction information
• from the Government's Protection of Children Act List (PoCA)
• from the Government's Protection of Vulnerable Adults List (POVA)
• held by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) under Section 142 of the Education Act 2002 (formerly known as List 99)

Disclosures

Disclosures contain the following;

• details of all convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings held on the Police National Computer (PNC);

• information from the Protection of Children Act List (PoCA);

• Information from the Protection of Vulnerable Adults List (POVA); and

• Information held by the DfES under Section 142 of the Education Act 2002 of those considered unsuitable for banned from working with children

All staff and volunteers at First Stop Darlington are required to have an enhanced disclosure carried out before they finish their shadowing programme

Enhanced Disclosure

Enhanced Disclosures are for posts involving a far greater degree of contact with children or vulnerable adults.  Enhanced Disclosures contain the same information as Standard Disclosures but with the addition of local police force information considered relevant by Chief Police Officer(s).  

CRB checks take up to 8 weeks to be completed once they have received your correctly completed form.