IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR STANDARD AND ENHANCED CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK APPLICATIONS On 1st December 2012 the Criminal Records Bureau and Independent Safeguarding Authority merged to become the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The DBS has launched new forms for ALL paper-based Standard and Enhanced disclosures applications, and will cease processing any Standard or Enhanced disclosure applications received […]
Temporary workforce remains a weakness in the screening program for many employers Temporary workers may fuel much of the predicted recruitment growth for 2013 as employers remain under pressure to keep short-term costs down. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s (REC) JobsOutlook reports that 88% of UK employers plan to increase or maintain their temporary staff […]
Written by Arjun Medhi, Operations Manager – Staff Fraud, CIFAS – The UK’s Fraud Prevention Service It is interesting, as well as alarming, to note that Members of CIFAS – The UK’s Fraud Prevention Service, reported more staff fraud between June and December 2012 than in the whole of 2011. The majority of the cases […]
Whistleblowing cases reported to the Financial Services Authority have increased by 276 per cent in four years, according to information1 obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by HireRight’s sister company, Kroll Advisory Solutions, the global investigations firm. Kroll found that between June 2011 and May 2012 the FSA received 3,733 contacts to its whistleblowing […]
Over the last two years HireRight has witnessed a 49% increase in the number of applications containing at least one inaccuracy, with over half (52%) of all of the pre-employment background screenings conducted by HireRight in the UK and the rest of EMEA in the third quarter of 2012 uncovering falsehoods. This mirrors the findings […]
Analysis of frauds recorded on the CIFAS Staff Fraud Database during the first half of 2012, compared with 2011, revealed a notable increase in those recorded for employment applications containing serious material falsehoods (up by 160% from the first half of 2011). Read the full press release here Debbie HatfieldHatfield123More Posts
