Property News · May 22, 2016

The bureaucratic backlog that means nurses, carers and teachers cannot work


Delays to Disclosure and Barring Service checks have reached unprecedented levels, causing workers to miss out on jobs and to suffer financiallyWhen Monica Demeterova completed her early years childminding course last December local parents were swift to sign up to her services and she looked forward to launching her own business. Five months on she is scraping a living doing agency work at a warehouse while the children on her books have found provision elsewhere. The reason is that she has been waiting 150 days for the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate required by law for anyone working with children and vulnerable adults.The DBS, which replaced the Criminal Record Bureau in 2012, checks the background and suitability of individuals. As a former nanny and nursery employee, 31-year-old Demeterova already has the necessary paperwork, but since she will be running her business from her home, her husband Michal also needs to be assessed, and his application, submitted last December, is one of tens of thousands stuck in a bureaucratic log-jam. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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