Employer claims to have 'lost' my original birth certificate

[Guest]

Hi, Not sure if I'm posting in the right place and if anyone will be able to help. When I was at Uni I worked part-time in a pub [well known chain] and had to submit my original birth certificate as part of the pre-employment checks. I did ask for it to be returned but it never materialised. When I left the pub [and this was two years ago so I appreciate I should have sorted this earlier] the manager told me that he couldn't find my birth certificate and/or it had been shredded! I've obviously had to buy a replacement certificate but my Mum has now found out and is really upset with me as it's not the original one that she paid for all those years ago! And she says that someone could have used this to set up an identity in my name. So she is furious with me for a] not sorting it out and b] not telling her so SHE could have sorted it out.
Any assistance gratefully received. Is there some way of finding out if someone has created a new identify in my name? Do I have to flag this up with the the Registrar General or anyone else. Can't tell you how mad she is with me.
Thanks

[MIKE770]

they lost it they should replace it with the cost, - you can get copy of original from original registrar office and a fee to be paid.
Order a copy of a birth, death or marriage certificate - GOV.UK

https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-...ge-certificate

[Guest]

Thanks Mike - I've got a copy already as I needed it for my current employer however my Mum is going spare about the potential for identity theft. She thinks the story that the pub has 'shredded it' is not credible and thinks someone in the pub has 'sold it on' - she's on the warpath now about this - big time! I've been on Google to see if there's somewhere I could report the original as lost/stolen but the damage is, according to her, already done, as someone's got the original and they could be sitting on it [until I'm older but clearly not wiser!] if they haven't already created a fake identity in my name.