Scott’s Spiel

So 6+ weeks is a long time to wait for a Disclosure. Especially when I’ve already had two done previously and Disclosure Scotland has the waiting time of about 14 days. As I was looking at this last night I found out that Disclosure Scotland can be contacted to find out about the process of a Disclosure. They recommend however we contact the Registered Body first to see if they still have it, which for me is CRBS.

Gave them a ring this morning and they were having none of it. They said that St Andrews had to contact them to go “through security”. Sounds like the PC culture speech for “we’re too scared of what might happen if you’re not who you say you are”. Personally, that just sounds stupid. They must, at least, be able to do a quick check on their system and see if they even received a Disclosure in my name. I could tell them virtually every detail on it if they wanted me to prove who the hell I am.

Disclosure Scotland obviously agreed with me. The member of staff I received when I phoned was only too happy to check whether they had received my Disclosure or not. After taking a few details he told me I had one in 2005 and 2006 but none this year. Great, where the hell is it then?

I’ve come up with 3 options:

1. It’s still at St Andrews doing god knows what
2. It’s at CRBS gathering dust or something
3. It’s lost in the post

Even if we take the best of these and assume CRBS sent it today, I won’t get it for another 2 weeks at least. If we look at the worst it could be another month at least, after I fill out another form.

Personally though I’m more annoyed that because of the bureaucracy involved one part of the process is happy to converse with me and the other isn’t. Just highlights another flaw in this whole system. Gah!