The Standards Committee will:
- Establish a strategic overview of the requirements for good Disclosure standards.
- Ensure that the end-to-end disclosure processes are reviewed from the perspective of the key risk (as set out above) which the Committee has been established to address.
- Establish, through the appropriate line management channels, management information which can help identify the areas of weakness. This should include quantitative measurement of disputes and their causes, "wrong" disclosures and their reasons, accuracy of input work by applicants and RB's, quality of compliance with standards by RB's , comprehensiveness, consistency, accuracy and timeliness of recording of criminal records and police intelligence, and errors in internal processes and in issue of disclosures.
- Establish, through the Registered Body network, the effectiveness of disclosures in influencing decision taking over appointments to sensitive employment positions.
- Commission a review of the major risk areas within the overall key risk being addressed and the maintenance of a "top ten" risk register with action programme to manage these risks.
- Provide an annual "audit" report on the work undertaken and level and areas of remaining risk identified, for Accounting Officer and Home Office assurance purposes.