Criminal record check upgraded
FURTHER to the article by Neil McNicholas (Yorkshire Post, March 5), the Disclosure and Barring Service, will, this year, introduce a new and additional service – the Update Service which will bring greater reusability to a person’s criminal record check.
Once a person has subscribed to the service, their employers – both current and in the future – will be able to check online and for free whether there have been any updates since the last time they had a check.
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Additionally, I am happy to clarify that the change of our name to the DBS, following our merger with the Independent Safeguarding Authority in December of last year, does not necessitate a new check.
Living history
From: David Bentley, Pickering.
WHILE “bows and arrows” may have been played since 1673 (Yorkshire Post, March 6), you appear to have overlooked a sporting fixture that predates it by more than 150 years!
The Kiplingcotes Derby has been run since 1519 ,this year’s event being March 21.
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Hide AdI trust your photographer will be there so that those reading the Yorkshire Post in 2055 will see in “From The Archive” a real home-bred event being honoured, although I shall be pushing up daisies by then.
Long and short
From: Terry Duncan, Greame Road, Bridlington.
WATCHING TV footage of the scene outside the King Edward VII Hospital where HM The Queen was being treated, I noticed two policemen on duty.
One looked twice as tall as the other. Was one extremely tall or was the second extremely short?