CRB checks. Advice please.

[ElRazur]

HR revealed today that my check came back with GBH. Now I have never been convicted of anything nor had taken to courts for anything like this. How do I go about rectifying this?

I just sent an email to the CRB people and waiting for them to get back to me. A quick search shows that the CRB check is flawed and a few people are accused wrongly every year costing them their jobs and distress etc.

Thanks.

[ElRazur]

Thanks for your input. I still believe it is flawed, if it wasn't imo this thread wont exist, or some of the few links I have read.

Can you imagine what it is like to have the Chief Microbiologist and Senior Haematology dude calling you in the middle of a busy lab with that tone that tells everyone there is a problem?

Here is another reason why it is flawed. In my previous job it was done on me about four years ago, yet nothing comes up - Enhanced. Yet somewhere along the line the latest one shows that I was convicted of GBH in 2001. How the heck did that get in there? Surely, it would have shown four years ago if I really was a convicted person and not now?

Sorry Kitten, I am a bit emotional right now. Facing the prospect of losing my job is not something that is pleasant.

[ElRazur]

Not yet. The Chief will be going to see HR the first thing tomorrow morning. I dunno when I will get a reply back, but like you mentioned there is a procedure in place. This is listed on the website.

I am new in this place you see, so am a bit on the edge.

[lostkat]

Jesus Christ, what an awful thing to happen. Hope you manage to get it sorted!

[phykell]

Wow, that's quite a mistake for them to make! And the Government wonders why the general public are so cynical about ID cards and the archival of biometric information for individuals. If they can't even get the basic stuff right, what hope do they have of maintaining an accurate and reliable database on every person in the UK?

[Desmo]

Hope you get it sorted out El, must be quite a worry at the moment. I'm sure once they're made to check back through records they can trace it right back and find that there was no charge against you and wipe it from the slate as it were

[mok`]

Meh what a shower Out of curiosity even if it did come back with GBH on it what grounds do they have for sacking you? The only grounds I can think of is giving false information which would be gross misconduct. These checks are supposed to prevent people with convictions of fraud/ child abuse getting positions of trust and IMO shouldn't be used as an extension of the employee evaluation process.
I would personally avoid any job that requires these checks, not because I have anything to hide but because I see potential employers being privy to that sort of information as a gross invasion of privacy.

[ElRazur]

Thanks guys. Just stepped out of the HR office and am waiting for whoever have my file to arrive, and I can then phone the CRB right there and then.

The HR person admits it aint the first time people have been accused wrongly.

For customers to query Disclosures issued to them with details they feel are inaccurate including incorrect personal details, incorrect conviction information or other discrepancies.

Sometimes the information contained on a Disclosure is included because the CRB has been unable to categorically say that a conviction does not relate to the applicant. If you receive a Disclosure with a conviction that does not relate to you, inform the CRB and the person who asked you to complete the form, as soon as possible.

Disputes 0870 90 90 778 (9.00am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday, closed Saturday)
CRB Disputes Team
PO Box 165
Liverpool
L69 3JD

Please ensure you have a copy of the Disclosure in front of you when you call as you will be asked for information from it to ensure that we have identified the correct one on our database.

[ElRazur]

Originally Posted by mok`

Meh what a shower Out of curiosity even if it did come back with GBH on it what grounds do they have for sacking you? .

The reason I was upset last night was because the top dogs are howling that I know it should have been declared at the interview. Plus the fact that am on probation....so yeah, they imo have the grounds to fire me.

EDIT
There was nothing to declare in the first place.

[mok`]

Originally Posted by ElRazur

The reason I was upset last night was because the top dogs are howling that I know it should have been declared at the interview. Plus the fact that am on probation....so yeah, they imo have the grounds to fire me.

EDIT
There was nothing to declare in the first place.

No worries, I realised that from your original post. I was just playing Devil's Advocate as IMO they haven't handled it particularly well.

Good luck though, I cant imagine there being many thing worse than having your good name doubted as a result of a clerical ****-up