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My daughter has been told that she needs a UK criminal records check for a trip to Canada in about a months time. Not for the actual journey but its been asked for by an organisation she's linking up with over there.

I've only ever had this done via work or the local school and its just involved filling in a form and handing it back but this time we need to source it from scratch. Anyone got any experience about how to do this - who do I phone, what sites do I visit?
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Possibly a phone call to your local police office might give you some answers. Be prepared though to probably have to pay for the check to take place.

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My local police station wasn't much help. They knew about them of course but being just a branch office of a branch ofice nobody seemed to have much of a clue about how to set about obtaining one.

Daughter is now panicking about her trip as it seems they can take up to six weeks to come through and she has less than a month to departure. Pity the people in Canada didn't tell her about needing one a few weeks ago but we are where we are.
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Just googled 'criminal record check' and it came up with this among others


Criminal Records Services CRB Checks Online Criminal Records Bureau Check business personal basic HR

Could be worth a look or even a phone call.

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Try calling a local school, particularly an independent one (which won't have an LEA to do stuff for them) as to how they get the CRB checks done for all their employees.
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Just googled 'criminal record check' and it came up with this among others


Criminal Records Services CRB Checks Online Criminal Records Bureau Check business personal basic HR

Could be worth a look or even a phone call.

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Thanks for that link - it looks like a good place to start, even if it looks like they might be doing something criminal to my bank balance.

It was that aspect of it that really prompted my question - whether there was /is a cheap, direct to the government, route to getting a check done or whether its all been farmed out to the private sector. A bit like the EU health cards that you can get for nothing if you apply direct whereas clicking on any of the first fifty sites in google will get you the same thing but you'll have to pay them - confusion marketing really.

The last one I had to have done was almost ten years ago - we had an exchange student staying for a week, and it didn't cost anything. The student came via the local school and I'm certain they wouldn't be subsidising the checks. 10yrs is quite a while though so now having to pay for something that was free before wouldn't surprise me.
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CRBs are free for volunteers, and the organisation in question requesting the CRB should be providing and assisting with the application..

And they are not called CRBs anymore...

https://www.gov.uk/disclosure-barrin...check/overview


DO NOT use the link Margaret provided--- these websites are rip off scams, and designed to look like government agency websites... very deceptive...


similar to the E111 card scam
EHIC Scam website www.ehic.org - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums
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Thank's Fern, that was very helpful. She should be eligible for a free one on the basis of what she's doing and the direction the cash flow is going (ie away from her) but the small print on the site says overseas volunteers have to pay as they receive wages - which she isn't. They say email any queries so that's what I'll do.
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Try here: http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/index.htm

We have just done one for our son who is volunteering in the summer. It costs £25 and takes about two weeks.
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you need to apply via either your local forces hq or a main station - its around £20 . Its no big deal and we do them by the bucketload as every firm seems to want one these days .
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