CRB Checks for Contractors

There are 3 different levels of CRB Checks available for contractors – Basic Disclosure, Standard CRB Check or an Enhanced CRB Check.

CRB Checks for Contractors Working in Schools

It is very common for Schools to request CRB Checks for Contractors working on site, regardless of the type of work they are doing.  CRB Checks for contractors working in schools are available in all three levels however the level of check obtained will be dependent on how often the work is carried out on the School site (a regulated activity site), and the nature of the work.

Call Personnel Checks to discuss the eligibility for CRB Checks for contractors working in schools on 01254 355688

Standard and Enhanced CRB Checks

Standard or Enhanced CRB Checks will be suitable for contractors when the work involves working in the presence of either children or vulnerable adults. This can depend on the frequency of which the work is carried out, the nature of the work and the location where the work is done.

Standard and Enhanced CRB Checks show all Cautions, Warnings, Reprimands and Convictions from the individual’s living time in the UK only. The Enhanced CRB Check also searches to check the individuals name on the ‘Barred Lists’ for working with both Children and Vulnerable Adults. The Enhanced CRB Check then gives the Police access to include any other relevant information they think is suitable to include on a CRB Check.

Apply for a Standard or Enhanced CRB Checks

Basic Disclosure Scotland Criminal Record Check

If the work is not carried out on a site where children or vulnerable adults will be present, the Basic Check is all that is available.

The Basic Disclosure (more commonly known as a Criminal Convictions Certificate) is a certificate which searches for all unspent Criminal Convictions that an individual may have from their living time in the UK.

Apply for a Basic Disclosure Check

To establish what level of CRB Check for contractors is available, please call us on 01254 355688.

Eligibility for Trade and Maintenance Workers to Apply for a CRB Check

We are aware that increasing numbers of applications are being submitted to the CRB for trades persons and maintenance workers, for example, the position of electrician, plumber, photocopier engineers.

None of these positions are listed in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, so if a person is carrying out this role in a general capacity, there is no eligibility for a CRB check.

The CRB have confirmed with their colleagues at the Department for Education (DfE) that there is an entitlement in relation to these posts when the work involved is carried out on School premises, but only in limited circumstances as detailed below.

Organisations faced with the decision on whether they are entitled to undertake a CRB check on this type of role may be inclined to assume that they are entitled in all cases where there is a school involvement.

However, it should be understood that to meet the current definition of Regulated Activity, and enable an application to be submitted for an Enhanced CRB check including a check of the ISA children’s barred list, the work of the trades person must meet all of the following criteria:

• the work has to be carried out at a school regularly (once a week or more or on four days or more in a single month or overnight);
• the work has to take place regularly on the SAME school premises. For example, a trades person who works in several different schools, but only works in the same school once a fortnight, is not in regulated activity;
• the work has to involve the opportunity for contact with children at the school. If the work is done out of hours when no children are on site, or on a part of the site which is separated from areas where children have access, it is not regulated activity.

Where a school uses a trades / maintenance worker who works (i) regularly and (ii) at the same school and (iii) has opportunity for contact with children, then this would be considered as carrying out a Regulated Activity.