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Sector leaders oppose charging volunteers for 'portable' criminal records checks

Sector leaders oppose charging volunteers for 'portable' criminal records checks

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector Online, 23 December 2011
Justin Davis Smith

Justin Davis Smith
Letter to ministers is signed by Justin Davis Smith of Volunteering England and 27 others

Volunteering England and leaders of 27 major charities and voluntary sector umbrella bodies have called on the government not to charge volunteers for the planned portable Criminal Records Bureau checks.

The Protection of Freedoms Bill, which is before Parliament, proposes two types of criminal records check from 2013: a one-off check, which would remain free for volunteers as under the existing system, and a portable one based on a continuously updated criminal records database, which would allow an individual to work or volunteer for a number of organisations.

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