Adult protection and the Criminal Records Bureau: making use of criminal conviction data

Abstract

The Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) offers a ‘one‐stop‐shop’ for checking the suitability of potential employees to work with adults in health and social care settings. This paper argues that an exploration of the rationale for recruitment decision making following the creation of the CRB is timely and necessary.

Sexual abuse of elderly people: would we rather not know the details?

“…Such cases clearly raise important recruitment and employment issues in terms of the residential care of vulnerable adults. While Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks may assist, there remain concerns about the implementation of this system and the ways in which information from the checks is assessed and used (Kingston et al, 2003). As far as the two aforementioned cases in this study are concerned, a CRB check may not have precluded the abuser' s employment in a care home.…”