Big changes from the MoJ #3 - don't trust self-checks!
By now you may be aware that on May 3, the Ministry of Justice is shutting down their free third party criminal record check service. If your organisation does lots of criminal record checks, this may be quite a big deal for you, as third party checks from the MoJ will now cost $11 each. If you do hundreds or thousands of free checks a year, that's many thousands of dollars per year that you'll need to find. Even if you currently use the cheapest available priority service - the bronze 15 day check at $8.50 - you're still going to end up in the red. When money is tight, it can be tempting to look for short cuts. So what are your options? What about switching to self-checks? One tempting idea might be to get the candidate to do their own check, and then email you the result. In the past this wasn't a very tempting option, as self checks were slow, just like free third party checks. There was no advantage in trying to use self-checks over third party checks - both were fr...