Agency 'branded hundreds criminals'

A Government agency has reportedly branded hundreds of people who work with children criminals. A newspaper report said that in the year to February almost 700 applicants for jobs in teaching, nursing, childminding and volunteer work had been wrongly accused of wrongdoing by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB). A newspaper report said that in the year to February almost 700 applicants for jobs in teaching, nursing, childminding and volunteer work had been wrongly accused of wrongdoing by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) They will have to go through an appeals process to clear their names. The CRB was established to vet people working with children. In recent years the number of checks undertaken annually has almost doubled, from 1.5 million five years ago to almost 3 million last year. The Daily Telegraph claims 680 people... [read full story]