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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Actually, from what I have been told at work, that is not true.. It's for people who deal with any vulnerable people (children are counted as vulnerable people) in any capacity as part of their job. Under certain circumstances, people also may be required to undergo a check as part of something they are volunteering for.
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no not if they are not being left in charge of them on thier own though some companies seem to stretch this to get these done when they shouldnt be
see
http://www.crb.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=308
http://www.crb.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=310
for a brief over view of what it is suposed to be used for and by any definition a sales person or even engineer wouldnt come under those definitions unless they are expected to look after kids as part of their visit while the parents or carers of a vulnerable person pops to the shops
just to emphasise this a volunteer at a school need not have one of these done if they are not going to be there for more than 6 months ( that's a fair bit of albeit supervised access to children ) against any of these jobs where they may meet children with their parents
any one at your work who thinks that these should be done and or insist people have them done isn't doing their job properly i suggest they re read their CRB pack properly or go on a refresher course
i suspect though they haven't done either and are just usoing an umbrella organisation to get these done who are pushing them to get as many done as possible regardless to the need to get thier sales up
here is a link to a fairly responsible ( i mean good by that in that it doesnt push to get every one done lol )
http://www.crbscreening.co.uk/aboutcrb.htm
but some other seem to activly push to gey work where they shouldnt