19 March 2012
During an inspection in response to concerns
We looked through a total of three files for members of staff appointed since the start of the year.
Each one was well organised and they were easy for us to find documents within them. The service had applied for a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check for each person.
Two out of the three people had not commenced work at The Lawns until the CRB had been done. One person had started prior to the CRB check. However, the home had received a PoVA first (Protection of Vulnerable Adults) check. The references on file were not from the named people on the application form. A verbal explanation about who the referees were was given but this background information had not been recorded at the time.
We found that that another person who worked at the home had returned there after a period of time working elsewhere having resigned from The Lawns. We saw no new documentation had been completed such as an application form, reference requests and a new CRB.