Background Checking

Concateno’s background checking services are designed to help organisations mitigate personnel-related risks.

Concateno can provide a range of checks from a simple one-off credit check or criminal record check through to more comprehensive packages which include:

• Identity
• Right to work in the UK
• Residency
• Credit / bankruptcy
• Education
• Professional qualifications and memberships
• Employment history
• Directorships / disqualified directorships
• Driving license checks
• Criminal record checks
• International checks

Who needs to be checked?

Employers may be obliged by regulators or government bodies to check their staffs employment history and background, for instance ensuring they have the right to work in the UK or within regulated areas of the business such as legal or financial departments. Alternatively, employers carry out checks according to the risks in their business, for instance anyone who will be handling case or has access to sensitive credit or debit care details or drivers. We work with our clients to develop packages which are appropriate to an individual’s job functions.

What are the risks?

• Deloitte’s ‘Global Financial Services Security Survey’ found that 91% of employers were concerned about the risks of internal fraud.
• Business fraud across the UK has soared by 74% as desperate employees turn to crime to offset spiralling debts amid the credit crisis, according to BDO Stoy Hayward.
• Almost half of all UK organisations reported fraud costing the UK economy an estimated £30 billion.

Want to find out more about drug testing, alcohol testing, employee assistance programmes, drug and alcohol policies, testing programme management or training and education services Concateno offer?

Find out more about the Employee Services and Maritime division that use this service.

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