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I saw the programme, but I didn't think it applied to any other job. For heaven's sake it could apply to Medics! Or would the GMC pick that up?

A young Australian friend obtained work as a teachers assistant in the UK and he had to provide CRB checks for his time in Australia and Japan. However, he had worked for a year in China but he was told there was no need for a CRB check from there because they can't get them. It seemed to us to make a mockery out of the CRB check vetting system.

SEAL UP OR GIVE UP

I can't help feeling it is time for a New- Millennium Domesday Book. I bet it is possible under 'Anti Terror' law! We should close all ways in and out of the mainland for as long as it takes, and then identify (and tag?) every last human 'in residence' . Boy would we be in for some surprises! If we can't or won't, then it is time to declare ouselves a non-island (Orwell would love that) and just give up.

I am a French national who first came to work in this country in 1990 as a language assistant in a secondary school. As such I was required to obtain (from the French authorities) a recent copy of my own criminal record (extrait de casier judiciaire - which showed no convictions) and provide it to the LEA I was going to work for. This way, the LEA was able to ascertain that I didn't have a criminal record. I had no problem complying with the request as I was applying for a job involving children. I am sure that other European countries have similar schemes.

In Hungary, you can undertake your own criminal record check. The Justice Ministry issues you with a certificate of a clean record and, for a fee, you can have a verified state translation into any EU language. The document is your property so you do not have to do it over and over every time you change jobs. With a current certificate, you can go to the UK where British CRB can account for time spent there and thus prove a lifelong conviction free clean record.

Yes; many IT workers credentials are not checked, and as you will be aware from recent events, there is considerable laxity in security in many back-office operations.

i have often wondered about security guards who can hardly speak english and come from war torn parts of the world can prove they have a 10 year checkable work history.

the nhs is one place known terrorists have come from?

I have a British passport and have lived most of my life outside of the UK, now in Brussels. I have to say, I do find it quite strange that it is mostly the British that cannot seem to make the most basic things work. The Euro, 24 hour drinking, high speed rail tracks, ID cards and Ciminal record checks are just a few. I have seen in this blog that other people have pointed out that most countries will provide their citiznes with a criminal record report to be used in another country for work permits and such things. This is not a complex request and is an easy thing to have a non native applicant provide. So why is there a problem?

Regards
Chalks

What was Winston Churchill most worried about in the 2nd World War ? Answer the U Boats destroying our ability to survive !!
I have been a Merchant Marine Engineer Officer since the early 1980's - (95% of goods come by ship - not aircraft !! ).
The changes I have seen over this period the General Public would not believe or understand eg there was more Merchant Ships supplying the Falklands War than Warships. Neither of us could to do it today !!
Our own Government have been complicite in giving Foreigners equivelent Certification to our own and now "As a seafaring nation" we haven't a clue
THINK ABOUT IT !!

it does not surprise me that they don't do criminals background checks on the staff.....