CRB Applications - Interim Arrangements
As you may now be aware, the Government has announced their intention to remodel the Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) back to proportionate, common sense levels. As a result, the ISA registration phase of the scheme has now been stopped and therefore will not launch on 26 July 2010.
Although the full details and scope of this remodel are still to be finalised:
- it is business as usual for the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB);
- the elements of the VBS put in place back in October 2009 continue; and
- existing requirements concerning CRB will remain in place, and those entitled to such checks can continue to apply for them.
As a result of ISA registration being stopped, the CRB has had to consider the impact on its application process. The CRB has recently provided Registered Bodies with an initial stock of new (purple) application forms in readiness for the planned launch of the ISA registration phase in July. Although this phase of the VBS has now been halted, the CRB will still launch the new application form on 26 July 2010 as originally planned.
The CRB hopes that by introducing the new form as planned, it will reduce any inconvenience during this period. In order to process applications, the CRB will extract and ignore those parts of the new application form which capture ISA registration requirements, and use only those data fields which are required to process a CRB check.
You may begin to submit applications using the new (purple) form from 28 June 2010. However, please note that applications received on or after this date for Enhanced or Standard checks will not begin to be processed until 26 July 2010, as originally planned for ISA registrations. This is the date by which we will have switched over to the new processing system and will be able to handle the new forms.
