British Boy Scouts will no longer be confined to mountains and woods and they will be prepared to help the British Identity and Passport Service design a model procedure for checking people’s identities against the ID database.

In June the IPS will decide how include the use of passport and ID cards into the identity checking process,  which is usually performed by authorised agents of the Criminal Records Bureau.

The process is commonly used by organizations to approve or deny people permission to work with children and vulnerable individuals, The Register reported yesterday.

But what Scouts have to do with this?

The Scouts, which are actually one of the highest-volume CRB agents, have been involved in such  trial to create the "proof of concept" for the procedure over the next six months.

Feasibility studies  will be carried out to demonstrate how  the introduction of similar instruments will reduce identity frauds and it will evaluate the impact on people requesting CRBs certificates.

Current procedure is quite inaccurate since most of the mistakes were pointed out by applicants themselves when the CRB wrongly linked them to criminal records.

The other problem of this procedure is about its effectiveness: malicious people who would like to work with children could use a false identity: current identification checks are based on applicants’ “biographical footprints”, that are extrapolated by documents such as utility bills.

 But on the other hand the new method based on biometric ID is not universally considered as a step on, indeed groups of vulnerable adults, such as people with precedents, could be discriminated against by employers, and they could be refused a job because of minor or irrelevant convictions.   

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