I am strugging both practically and motivationally to provide the documents you request.I have a current CRB and do not see the relevance in providing further futile employment for a CRB employee. I suppose next we will be required to have weekly checks and yet possibly abuse the day after we get accredited. A piece of paper, no matter how current, can protect a child from a first time offender. There should just be a computer link from the PNC, that almost instantly, flags up a concern to the Care Council, who would remove or suspend from the register, depending on the substance of the allegation. We should not acquiesce with this current system as by doing so we somehow legitimise something that needs a major overhaul. I have worked in child care for nigh on forty years with no hint of question about my integrity or propensity to behave in an innapropriate way towards those lower down the power chain than myself. At 65 one has the luxury of speaking ones mind and I am no longer buying in to this bureaucratic rubbish. Surely it is the responsibility of the care council to legitimise the workforce and I feel all these extra checks are just papering over the cracks of a toothless body who need to get their act together. If they are going to give the thumbs up to practice they should satisfy themself it is right to do so and this should be sufficient endorsement.Regards,Peter.
Never mind Peter,
The new vetting and barring registration scheme should be useful. It'll be a one time registration that employers can check us against and will be compulsory for all care workers. It'll be updated automatically so we won't need to keep on filling in these forms and paying our hard-earned dosh to beurocrats.
Good innit?
Cheers,
Stuart
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Brilliant, thanks for enlightening me, perhaps I might do a few more years now.
Haha! Try going travelling for five months and consequently, not having an address, not being council tax registered and not paying any bills....that really puts knots into the red tape! :)
Shirack: Brilliant, thanks for enlightening me, perhaps I might do a few more years now.
ROFLMAO