Wednesday, 5 August 2009

There's Always A Silver Lining If You Look Hard Enough...

Blundering officials have given scores of men and women criminal records by mistake.

Errors by the Criminal Records Bureau, which vets those applying for jobs with children and vulnerable adults, have doubled in the past 12 months.
Whoops!
Despite intense pressure to improve its performance, 1,570 people were wrongly branded criminals or mistakenly given a clean record.

Victims of the vetting process must go through an appeal process to clear their names.
So, government department gets it wrong, necessitating even more bureaucrats to put it right?
It is feared they may be deterred from ever working in the public sector.
So, not all bad news then…

4 comments:

Von Spreuth. said...

Victims of the vetting process must go through an appeal process to clear their names.

Always assuming you know your name is there in the first place.

Von Brandenburg-Preußen.

JuliaM said...

Presumably, you'll know when you keep getting turned down for jobs...?

Von Spreuth. said...

No. Because they do not have to give a reason. And how many "refusals" have we all here had for various jobs?

Have any of us ever asked, through a solicitor and appeals tribunal, or whatever, "WHY?"

Would we even in our wildest nightmares THINK of the possibility our name had been put on a list that did not exist last week? For something we have NOT done, and would never DREAM of doing?

Appeal EVERYTHING. THAT would bring the "Government to it's knees in DAYS, if EVERYONE did that.

Try "the chavs game" for a change.

Von Brandenburg-Preußen.

Von Spreuth. said...

Sorry pressed "go" to early.

Beat the "Government" at their own game, think chav.

I am sure I could find a quote from Mao Tse Tsung to cover that, but....

vBP