I was recently offered a professional appointment, subject to getting a Disclosure certificate. Disclosure is a newish system where a central government agency hold all sorts of information about you (criminal convictions, sexual peccadilloes, favourite Spice Girl etc.) and on payment of a fee they will release a report about you and all your criminal misdemeanors. Essentially, of course, it is a back-covering exercise. Anyone running a club or society now needs to pay a fee to make sure that the would-be Scout Master does not hold a series of convictions for tying up small mammals using a round turn and two half hitches.
I have no convictions or police cautions (except obviously for speeding tickets which don't count - they merely serve to mark you out as a rakish prince of the road). However, it did not stop me shaking a little as I opened the envelope. I cannot help but have noticed over the past few weeks that the executive has not been entirely careful with personal data, and I had a nagging feeling that they might have mixed me up with a serial bigamist from Somerset.
At any event I have been given the all clear. Which shows what they know. The fools.
Nightcap
15 years ago
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