In the part of Australia I grew up in if you work with kids you need to get something called a blue card. It is a light background check nothing too serious. In my cheerleading team there was some of us over 18 but most were under 18. Club management said if you are over 18 you should get one, not because it was needed, but just if a parent asked anything they can say we all have blue cards.
Cue talking to my friends about it and they effectively boiled it down to, “So you have a card that say you are not a pedo?”
DO we? Holy shit. Here I was just about to think it was weird.
But. I hope we get the right background check. Even before this orange stain, my local SPCA was checking backgrounds via an American company and I was sure I didn’t want my personal info going abroad to some corp. I walked no dogs.
I work in private-possum stuff now (like secret-squirrel but less) and I’ve got cop in-laws (mounties are federal cops). So I’ve been checked so much it’s almost a sport. Send my info abroad? Nope.
In the part of Australia I grew up in if you work with kids you need to get something called a blue card. It is a light background check nothing too serious. In my cheerleading team there was some of us over 18 but most were under 18. Club management said if you are over 18 you should get one, not because it was needed, but just if a parent asked anything they can say we all have blue cards.
Cue talking to my friends about it and they effectively boiled it down to, “So you have a card that say you are not a pedo?”
We have something like that in Canada. It’s called a certificate of conduct.
In the UK I’ve previously heard it called a CRB check, but seems it’s been updated to DBS now
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure_and_Barring_Service
DO we? Holy shit. Here I was just about to think it was weird.
But. I hope we get the right background check. Even before this orange stain, my local SPCA was checking backgrounds via an American company and I was sure I didn’t want my personal info going abroad to some corp. I walked no dogs.
I work in private-possum stuff now (like secret-squirrel but less) and I’ve got cop in-laws (mounties are federal cops). So I’ve been checked so much it’s almost a sport. Send my info abroad? Nope.