CRB Enhanced Disclosure
The3rdComing
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How flipping long do they take?
I sent off for mine on September 21st and am still waiting :mad:
Has anybody else experienced this sort of delay, or knows how long they normally take?
Thanks
I sent off for mine on September 21st and am still waiting :mad:
Has anybody else experienced this sort of delay, or knows how long they normally take?
Thanks
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OP, check on the website for the CRB office in your area that the application would have been made to, or give them a call even perhaps.?
Hmm, I think it must be, it's been 8 weeks now. I'm quite concerned because of the group of us who sent off at the same time, not one has come back yet.
We have a work placement officer who deals with any queries and contacting them, but I really think I should take it into my own hands and find out just what the delay is.
Thanks, I am going to once I've got the contact details
If it impacts on my placement and then what I can put on my UCAS form, I shall not be best pleased lol
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/crb_checks/
If you phone the CRB on 0870 90 90 811, they will let you know what stage it's at. They will ask you your date of birth, address etc, etc.
If you have your FOO number (the one that was on your form) you can track it on line, by putting in the FOO number and your date of birth.
Google 'CRB On-line tracking'.
It will tell you what stage the application is at.
At least that way you'll know if the CRB has received it.
Glad I have a tracking number to check it.
They received it the 11th November - so probably means wont start new job until new year.
8 weeks seems like an awful long time though, especially when you're stuck waiting to start a job/placement because of it. I'd give them a ring and see if there's a problem.
Crikey, that's good.
It was about 6 weeks for a childcare position for me.. and about 20 weeks when I worked in a sensitive data-centre :rolleyes:
Both let me work prior to CRB checks too, rendering them a bit useless. If you wanted to abduct kiddies, or destroy and wreck confidential, country-wide IT systems - I wouldn't have had a problem.
It is. Here's the linky for any disbeliever out there (seeing as I am fall into the most cynical of people!)
http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/
I didn't have a clue about being able to track it on line as we have someone who is basically saying "leave it all to me - everything will be fine", but obviously it isn't
I've heard loads of horror stories about the reasons why it can take so long but im baffled tbh, I had all the documentation they could wish for, I haven't moved in the last 15 years never mind 5 and I haven't even ever set foot in a police station, so I'm at a loss really. At least now thanks to the advice I can track it down.
I just hope I don't lose my placement as I have found the perfect school regarding locality etc :mad:
Also one of them came back showing details of a conviction belonging to someone else with the same name - that took nearly 6 months to sort out. Luckily the CRB in question was a renewal and the conviction was so long ago it should have been on previous disclosures for that "employer".
Did I get an apology from the CRB - of course not.
when i applied for mine I was told that sometimes if your addresses don't match up to previous crb check, it can delay it a lot. For example many people get one done when they are students and put the halls of residence down as their current address and then the next time they send away for it they've moved back home and forgotten that they put the halls down on the last one and state that they've only lived at home.
I had one done recently and the form was submitted the last day of september and i got it on the third of november. The bad thing is that cos it was for a supply employment agency they couldn't offer me work so i was sat at home , extemely bored, twiddling my thumbs for 5 weeks