SC Clearance

[nad25]

Hi PPl....

I have applied for a contract role i will be offered the role once i have been SC cleared.
Its been six weeks since the forms were submitted i have not heard anything yet i have contacted the security department of the company and they have informed me that they are waiting for the DVA.

Anyone recently had SC Clearance how long should it take? the DVA website and the forms state it should be 4 weeks!!!

Also i have no criminal records and never been in trouble with the police apart from the odd speeding ticket, is there anything else i need to be aware of regarding SC Clearnance regarding checks carried out by DVA?

[NotAllThere]

I once waited 10 weeks for SC to come through for work at the Met Police. A very senior officer of City police advised me that I should call the Met personnel director. I didn't get through to her, but did talk to the secretary, explaining how long I'd been waiting, and the difficulty this was causing. SC came through 3 days later.

It was worth it to wait - I ended up helping the police with their enquiries for a year at a very good rate, which I was able to charge throughout the slump which occured just two months into the contract.

[b0redom]

I got mine a couple of years ago, and it took about 6 months. I think the HR dept were sitting on the forms for a while though. Basically it all depends on how many other people are on the waiting list, and how high your priority is.

I believe direct goverment employees get the fastest service, and the 4 week thing is a minimum. A mate has just had DV clearance for some police contract and that took about 3 months....

[TheFaQQer]

I'm in an SC role at the moment, but can work pending clearance.

I got Baseline Standard in July (which you need before you can get SC), and I'm still waiting for the SC to come through. So far, it's been 52 working days - they aren't allowed to escalate it until it's been in for three months.

DV will take a lot longer than SC - it depends where you need it for as well. The Home Office is swamped with applications at the moment, apparently, so they are taking longer than usual. No idea how other clearance is going.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I have waited 3-6 months. They are slow and incompetent. Each time I chased things up they claimed to have lost all the details and I had to fill the forms in a number of times. They really are scum. One time I sat in the office of the woman dealing with my SC and asked her face to face if she had all the details she needed (this was after weeks of her raising one extra query per week) - she said yes and then still raised a further query a week later.

On the upside, at the last gig they did a "basic check" kind of interim clearance that allowed you to get on site and work pending the full thing. When I first started working in the wonderful world of government, I had to ask someone to come with me each and every time I wanted to go the the loo!

[b0redom]

Yeah, I was able to work on an SC site with BC clearance until mine came through on the basis that:

1) It was pending
2) I was escorted at all times by someone with SC clearance
3) I wasn't allowed to touch anything myself

[The Lone Gunman]

Point your client and agent here.

http://www.pcg.org.uk/cms/index.php?...375&Itemid=639

HTH.

[TheFaQQer]

Point your client and agent here.

http://www.pcg.org.uk/cms/index.php?...375&Itemid=639

HTH.

You are Malvolio and I claim my £5 discount on insurance.

[The Lone Gunman]

You are Malvolio and I claim my £5 discount on insurance.

If only I were half as smart and well informed as Mal.

[malvolio]

If only I were half as smart and well informed as Mal.

I couldn't possibly comment...

However, mildly interesting question for those who are on site but with clearance pending. How many are working directly to the department and how many are through a prime consultancy or PFI consortium?

My bet is that the ones without clearance yet are the ones who went "direct"...