80% of recruiters consider criminal record checks to be critical or very important to their recruitment process and there has been remarkable growth in the number of criminal record checks being conducted in the UK, and indeed around the world. When the routine checks were first introduced in Britain in 1986, the Home Office anticipated processing 100,000 a year but by 1993 some 1 million checks were done and today this has risen to 2 million checks a year, a process which costs upward of £83 million in England and Wales each year.

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