https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/pay-to-work-dbs
DBS background checks mean NHS staff 'paying to work'
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/pay-to-work-dbs
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DBS background checks mean NHS staff 'paying to work'
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/pay-to-work-dbs
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2019-04-02T17:17:16.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-04-02T17:41:19.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:31:13.597Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: dbs, employment, nhs, python
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47540601
- Size: 284 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# DBS background checks mean NHS staff 'paying to work'
In March 2019 we [reported](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47540601) that thousands of NHS jobs were requiring workers to pay for the costs of criminal background checks.
## Get the data
*We used data scraped from the NHS jobs website. The latest file was over 200MB and too large to share here. However, you can see the code used in the scraper below*
## Quotes and interviews
* Kerri Watt, hotel marketing manager who was asked to pay the costs of her own criminal background check
* A community psychiatric nurse from Yorkshire, who preferred to remain anonymous
* Karolina Gerlich, chief executive, the National Association of Care and Support Workers (Nacas)
* Spokeswoman, GMB trade union
* Spokesman, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
* Spokeswoman, York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
* Spokesman, North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
* Jagriti Patwari, director of Eurocom CI, a company that carries out background checks
* Spokeswoman, NHS Employers
## Visualisation
* Table: NHS jobs advertised with deductions from salaries for DBS checks, by employer (January-March 2019)
## Code
* [Python scraper](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/pay-to-work-dbs/blob/master/nhsjobsscraper.py)
* [RMarkdown notebook which queries the scraper](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/pay-to-work-dbs/blob/master/dbsads.Rmd)