Tequila wrote:
Much how the criminal records checks here can do a lot of harm to someone for no good. i.e. Being turned down in your thirties or forties over some minor offence (often drugs) that you committed when you were 15 or 16. Before all this bureaucracy honest, reformed people would have been allowed to have a second chance. Not any more.
Ah, not necessarily - it depends on the nature of the offence and minor drug-related or other offences committed when 18 would have no bearing on most job applications when 30.
Some can become spent more quickly than others, while others remain unspent - ie. they
must be disclosed when asked.
Although the offence is always permanently recorded on the PNC, CRB checks don't have direct access to that and would not in any case turn up a spent offence (subject to certain excluded jobs).
Quote:
Applicants with a criminal record who are asked on an application form or at an interview whether they have any previous convictions can answer 'no' if the convictions are spent and the job applied for is not excepted from the Act. Under the terms of the Act, a spent conviction shall not be proper grounds for not employing - or for sacking - someone. (If on the other hand, job applicants do not disclose unspent convictions, if asked to do so, they may be found out, dismissed on the grounds of having deceived the employer - and possibly prosecuted.)
http://www.lawontheweb.co.uk/Road_Traff ... enders_Act
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