Brian Gorman, Dislosure Scotland manager, said, 'We have no backlog. Our service level agreement is that we'll turn around 90 per cent of disclosures within ten working days. If an applicant has an address history in England or Wales, or anything that indicates it might be worthwhile looking for additional information, we seek information from the English and Welsh police forces, who are responding to us well within the time-frame. We don't go through the Criminal Records Bureau, as we are doing the same job as them, but for Scotland.'
Mr Gorman said there was a one-off fee of 150 to register, plus Pounds 10 for each additional countersignatory, and applications were turned around within ten days. There are now 750 organisations registered with Disclosure Scotland, including a number of local authorities and care organisations.
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