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The Home Office has begun to look for a replacement for the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), with a tender for a company to run outsourced disclosure and barring services. The new service will bring the CRB and ISA together, and is aimed at supporting the implementation of the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Easy solution!

    Let British Gas, RBS or any other major corporation do it. They already have the CRM infrastructure in place along with a fully accountable complaints management system to handle the rare problem that may arise.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Here we are with unemployment at 2.5 million

    And the muppets running this country want to add to that figure.

    I wonder who will get the backhander this time?

  3. Blofeld's Cat
    Facepalm

    Oh good...

    Another government IT project.

    Let's see: Merging two agencies...Need to work with existing systems... GBP 350 M of taxpayer's money (plus no doubt the odd overrun)... Eight year contract... Vague spec... Timescales not yet defined...

    What could possibly go wrong?

  4. JohnMurray

    Capita

    Will get it. They already do "childens services" and have access to home office and pnc records.

  5. Magnus_Pym

    outsourcing?

    Can anybody point to a successful government privatising initiative? I can't see where they get the idea that it's a good idea.

    1. Ru
      Unhappy

      Works just as well if

      you remove the 'privatising' part of the question.

      Or indeed the 'initiative' bit.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Black Helicopters

    Will it promise

    the *total* expungement- including from archives, backups, USB sticks and paper- of any information that is incorrect, irrelevant or a case of mistaken identity?

    Will it be *impossible*- not just unlikely or unusual- to extract information without the need or authority?

    If not, it is still fundamentally broken and an affront to basic rights.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    India

    Infosys / TCS can do it for far less and at better quality.

    Why spend £100s of Millions when you can spend £2.36 and get better quality ?

    1. Qtoktok

      Please..

      Tell me you're joking

  8. skoop

    Troubling

    Why not go for a co-op based approach where the existing workers share a proportion of money left over from the budget? These private companies just seem to give employees a raw deal.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Trollface

    >outsourcing to India

    >better quality

    Yeah, until you want tech support.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Down

    India? You're kidding, right?

    Too many cases of India workers being bought off to seel data on folks. no thanks.

  11. kain preacher

    Made in USA

    Brig it over here . The US needs the jobs. And if you ask nicely I promise my gov won't take control of the data . Yep they will nicely tell you brits after the fact, only if they get caught .

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Guilty until proved innocent

    That was the ethos behind CRB, but "proved innocent" meant nobody yet found out what you're up to. Fact is most abuse of vulnerable persons happens within familiy and close friends - the rest is in the variious "care" services (esp children/elderly/mental health) which only employ CRB checked persons. Dodgy scout masters/vicars/teachers are a relative scarcity but grab the headlines 'cos nobody turns in dirty uncle Joe, just try to keep their kids away from him.

    I'd happily help out at scouts/cadets/schools etc. I got a CRB for one organisation but refuse to participate in the farce of delay and payment for recertification for every other such organisation I may want to volunteer for especially for something proven ineffective. It can only check known offenders ending up in people being barred from work for long past offences in areas of the law totally unrelated to vulnerable persons. The last loony government wanted to "fix" that by taking into consideration soft evidence like - he bought a smutty mag, saw a blue movie.

  13. Eduard Coli
    FAIL

    Ironic

    The title "Protection of Freedoms bill" will be the more ironic if that/when the contract goes to a head shop in locales like India, China or Vietnam where massive piles of personal data are sold everyday.

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