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Progress of New CRB Legislation through Parliament
The Bill provisions that relate to the Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) and the Criminal Records Regime include (CRR): 1. scrapping registration and continuous monitoring; 2. scrapping controlled activities; 3. reducing the scope of regulated activity (that is activity, which people on a barred list cannot do); 4. making changes to the criminal records checking process, including the introduction of a new system for the continuous updating and portability of criminal record [Much detail needs to be gone through to make this functional] 5. issuing certificates to the applicant only [Strong lobby against this] 6. improving systems for resolving disputes and representations 7. improving the relevancy test the police apply to intelligence and other information 8. merging the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) to form a new single organisation called the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).