CRB checking volunteers is meaningless without a policy to inform practice on how to decide if an offense is relevant, what else is need to ensure that volunteers are kept safe
Addressing issues related to criminal convictions needs an objective common sense approach which takes account of: the vulnerability of the client group the volunteer is helping the orgnaisation’s duties in law the nature of the crime when it happened the circumstances involved the sentence patterns of offending efforts to avoid re-offending skills required to volunteer successfully safeguards in place against offending when volunteering possible reactions of workers, trustees, clients etc, objectively assessed.