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48,000 Childcare Workers Lack Criminal Checks

A legal loophole means more than 48,000 people who work with children have not had proper criminal records checks. There is no law to ensure those who were registered to work in childcare before 2001 – when checks were toughened up and responsibility handed to Ofsted – are assessed again by the Criminal Records Bureau. This means most have only had the most basic of checks done by their local authority. Today, a senior child care source spoke out about the slip which could have left children vulnerable to paedophiles and sex offenders for the last eight years. “To leave (...)

The New York Times: Not Doing Background Checks can Destroy your Company

By Patrick K. Collard – Managing Member & Corporate Investigator 1-888-GOBACK-1 ext. 83 | patrickc@GObackgrounds.com According to The New York Times article, Eleven Easy Ways to Destroy Your Company, not doing background checks is number 4.  See the original article here, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance on October 30, 2009. GObackgrounds.com has offices in Temecula, CA and Brookfield, WI and has been in business for 18 years as a licensed corporate investigations company specializing in employment background checks and due diligence for investment purposes.  For further details please see www.GObackgrounds.com or contact GObackgrounds.com directly at 1-888-GOBACK-1 | service@GObackgrounds.com.

Some States Require Background Checks to be Performed by Licensed Investigators

By Patrick K. Collard – Managing Member & Corporate Investigator 1-888-GOBACK-1 ext. 83 | patrickc@GObackgrounds.com Nearly 30 states require employment background checks to be performed by a licensed investigation firm.  Is your current background check company a licensed investigations firm?  GObackgrounds.com is the division of Collard Investigations Internationale, LLC, which has been a licensed investigations firm since 1991. Doesn’t it seem like everybody and their brother is an expert at conducting background checks.  I remember back in the mid 1990’s when the credit bureau TransUnion pulled the plug on all the investigators who were getting credit reports from their (...)

Why should you resist doing your own background checks?

By Patrick K. Collard – Managing Member & Corporate Investigator 1-888-GOBACK-1 ext. 83 | patrickc@GObackgrounds.com We realize that the challenging economy has allowed companies to further examine their expenses in doing business.  Tragically some companies are attempting to do their employment background checks in-house.  Would you attempt to fix your Mercedes yourself?  In doing so, you void the warranty and may put other drivers at risk.  The same is true with your background checks. Here are the 3 big reasons not to conduct your own background checks in-house: 1) Lawsuits:  Employment law and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) (...)

Some Urge Removal of Criminal Record Boxes from Job Applications

Finding a job is hard enough in this economy, but for convicted felons, it can be nearly impossible.  As more are being paroled to save the State of Michigan money, advocates for ex-offenders say that getting rid of a check box on job applications would help more of these people get interviewed for positions. Penny Ryder, Co-Director of the American Friends Service Committee’s Criminal Justice Program, says that Battle Creek and Kalamazoo have already implemented policies forbidding vendors from excluding felons from employment… and she hopes other cities do the same.  She says hiring released convicts can have benefits.  Ryder says that former prisoners need the community’s support if they’re to get their lives restarted in the right direction, and critical to that is a decent job. She hopes such job applicants can be judged not by their criminal records, but by their qualifications. In some cases, however, these efforts have met fierce opposition from business groups. Reprinted with written permission from: The Background Investigator, Steve Brownstein