The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks, those internationally best-selling manuals describing how to negotiate the trickier moments of life from controlling a runaway camel to avoiding being struck by lightning, do not yet cover how early years professionals should cope with their current nightmare: obtaining police checks from the Criminal Records Bureau.
But the latest official guidance on form-filling might prove invaluable, since a CRB spokesman says that nearly 40 per cent of the forms are completed incorrectly.
In response to many complaints about delays in processing applications, both the CRB and Ofsted, acting as the umbrella body for registered childcarers in England, have issued guidance (see below).
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