Allow a single CRB check to apply to several organisations.

At the moment if you are involved with a club or activity involving children you have to apply for a CRB check for each organisation. If you help at (say) Scouts or Guides and are also helping at a kids football, rugby or swimming club you need a separate CRB check for each organisation - even though the information checked is the same and the activities (in the context of contact with children) are similar.

If you had a named list of common organisation types (say - Scouting, Registered Sports Clubs, Schools, Theatres etc) you could have a single CRB check which would be valid for similar activities in all of them. This would save a huge amount of time and money - for the taxpayer, the individual, and the organisations involved.

Those organisations or activities that don't fit into these categories could continue with CRB as it is now.

This would eliminate a good proportion of the CRB duplication that happens at the moment. Most people think it's nonsence and wasteful. It costs NFP organisations £12.00 for a CRB check (I think). In my Kids Football Club, with 23 teams and some 50 volunteer officers, managers, and coaches this could potentially cost  £600 or so every three years - even though most of the mums and dads are already CRB checked for other organisations.

This would only need a change in procedure - not law - to effect and could be done with a minimum of effort and cost.