A number of pre-school trustees have paid the £44 cost of their DBS check despite being employed as volunteers, the Pre-School Learning Alliance claims.
It said it had been ‘inundated by calls’ from members concerned about mispayment, who have since learned from the Department for Education that volunteers were only obliged to pay the administration fee, a maximum cost of £16.
Under the previous arrangement, the Government paid for the Enhanced Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks for childcare workers.
The merger of the Criminal Record Bureau and the Independent Safeguarding Authority in 2012 to form the Disclosure and Barring Service, saw the CRB check replaced by the DBS last December.
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