CRB Disclosure Charges for Paid and Unpaid Employees

Dear Sir or Madam,

Can you confirm that the CRB receives no Government subsidy against
the cost of processing applications for all disclosures where the
applicant is not paid?

When employers who are required to register their child care
services with Ofsted, who pays for these and how much is charged?

If the funding for unpaid staff was found, say, from Government
grant, what effect would this have on the cost of standard and
enhanced disclosures for paid staff? [A ball park figure based on
the current year or 2008 acceptable.]

[In other words
if the earnings of CRB from paid staff and other sources is £X,
the number of paid staff processed is A
and the number of unpaid staff is B,
and the cost of processing an application is £C for standard
and £D for Enhanced,
and £F is for Other Income:

£X= (£C+£D)*(A)+ (B*0) + £F

If the formula becomes:

£X= ((£C+£D)*A)+((£C+£D)*B) + £F, what will £C and £D be?]

In effect, are the employers with paid staff effectively
subsidising the zero-charge for unpaid workers?

What would the external annual subsidy at current levels for unpaid
staff need to be to remove the effective levy on paid worker
disclosures to meet the cost of the unpaid disclosures?

Yours faithfully,

Jan Cosgrove