Criminal Records check
May. 18th, 2005 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arwen_luneDOOD! To volunteer for the Tall Ships Youth Trust you need a security check, 'cause if you're sailing with (vulnerable) young people it's obviously a good idea to make sure your crew is 'clean'.
No problem so far. Got the forms, filled them out, included the proof of address.. sent them (end of february) and waited.
It was supposed to take about 6 weeks, but since I'm Dutch and have also lived in the UK it could take longer. All parties (TSYT, RYA which is the body coordinating the TSYT checks and the Criminal Records Bureau) have been told that I am Dutch, live in the Netherlands, but have also lived in the UK for a year.
So I waited. And at 13 weeks, I got impatient. So I rang the CRB and verily they said onto me "We never received your forms from the RYA"
So I rang the RYA coordinating person. And she said "But the CBR can't do your check because you have only lived in the UK for a short time, they don't do foreign checks. I told the TSYT this, they should have told you"
And I said "But CRB didn't ever tell me this. Nor did the TSYT. And both of them gave the impression that it was possible"
So she's going to contact the CRB, and if it's not possible I'm going to have to find another way with the TSYT.
All for a sodding note that says "Criminal records? Nope, never heard of her"
No problem so far. Got the forms, filled them out, included the proof of address.. sent them (end of february) and waited.
It was supposed to take about 6 weeks, but since I'm Dutch and have also lived in the UK it could take longer. All parties (TSYT, RYA which is the body coordinating the TSYT checks and the Criminal Records Bureau) have been told that I am Dutch, live in the Netherlands, but have also lived in the UK for a year.
So I waited. And at 13 weeks, I got impatient. So I rang the CRB and verily they said onto me "We never received your forms from the RYA"
So I rang the RYA coordinating person. And she said "But the CBR can't do your check because you have only lived in the UK for a short time, they don't do foreign checks. I told the TSYT this, they should have told you"
And I said "But CRB didn't ever tell me this. Nor did the TSYT. And both of them gave the impression that it was possible"
So she's going to contact the CRB, and if it's not possible I'm going to have to find another way with the TSYT.
All for a sodding note that says "Criminal records? Nope, never heard of her"