[UK-CONTEST] encouraging youngsters

[Laurence Mason]

If you read the web page about portability
http://www.crb.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=2244

Whilst they CAN be ported there are lots of things to check if you do. 
It is much easier for an organisation to be clean and have a specific 
one. Would you want to be the person who accepted someone else's check 
and then there was a problem that would have been caught with a fresh 
check (say 3 /6 months later) - it's known as CYA.

Someone has to pay for the check - as a parent to help with your own 
child at cubs it is somewhere within the scouting organisation that does 
it (I think at a reduced rate).

I do wonder how many people it has actually caught - presumably if you 
were worried that you might fail you would not put yourself in a 
position where you have to be checked.

Back to radio and showing the hobby I think one of the problems today is 
that we have to go out and show the hobby so people know that it even 
exists.

Twenty years ago talking on the radio around the world would get press 
coverage which in general it would not today - so the general public do 
not know that such a hobby exists. Sitting in under stair's cupboards, 
fields days in the middle of nowhere don't show the hobby off and when 
you do put a public station on you have to have someone engaged in 
talking to the GBP (Great British Public) so they realise what they are 
looking at and not just the backs of people's necks.

Laurence G4HTD



Roger G3SXW wrote:
> Thanks for that. Maybe the rules have recently changed, and/or they are 
> different for volunteer positions. I know someone who registered at three 
> employment agencies a few months ago and it cost her about £140 in fees for 
> three CRB checks. Outrageous! Each certificate is apparently only legally 
> binding to that particular applicant. Bureaucracy gone mad!
> 73 de Roger/G3SXW.
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