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…
Victims of the vetting process must go through an appeal process to clear their names.
ReplyDeleteAlways assuming you know your name is there in the first place.
Von Brandenburg-Preußen.
Presumably, you'll know when you keep getting turned down for jobs...?
ReplyDeleteNo. Because they do not have to give a reason. And how many "refusals" have we all here had for various jobs?
ReplyDeleteHave 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.
Sorry pressed "go" to early.
ReplyDeleteBeat 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