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    DBS checks: How rehabilitation periods are changing

    by Jessica Maguire 6 Nov 2020
    by Jessica Maguire 6 Nov 2020

    Jessica Maguire examines a recent white paper and outlines how the government is proposing to change rehabilitation periods and when...

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    Government proposes time reduction for disclosure of spent convictions

    by Jo Faragher 16 Sep 2020
    by Jo Faragher 16 Sep 2020

    Changes announced to make it easier for ex-offenders to find employment...

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    Opening doors: the benefits of recruiting ex-offenders

    by Jo Faragher 6 Feb 2020
    by Jo Faragher 6 Feb 2020

    With research suggesting skills shortages in some sectors are at their highest level since 2008, an increasing number of employers...

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    More firms commit to employing ex-offenders

    by Ashleigh Webber 28 May 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 28 May 2019

    An additional 230 organisations – including Greene King and Pret A Manger – have committed to hiring ex-offenders, as the...

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    Government should ‘ban the box’ in DBS criminal records overhaul

    by Rob Moss 27 Oct 2017
    by Rob Moss 27 Oct 2017

    The current disclosure of youth criminal records in the UK undermines principles of youth justice and could fall short of...

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    Time for change? Rehabilitation of offenders and the Lammy review

    by Catherine Hawkes 6 Oct 2017
    by Catherine Hawkes 6 Oct 2017

    Last month, David Lammy MP published a review recommending that, in certain cases, criminal records could be sealed from employers....

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    Lammy review: Criminal records could be ‘sealed’ from employers

    by Rob Moss 8 Sep 2017
    by Rob Moss 8 Sep 2017

    Individuals’ criminal records could be sealed from employers as part of a series of recommendations made in an independent review...

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    How employers can break the re-offending cycle

    by Jacob Hill 13 Sep 2016
    by Jacob Hill 13 Sep 2016

    Young entrepreneur Jacob Hill has just launched Offploy, which guides businesses through the HR, legal and ethical minefield associated with...

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    High Court: criminal record checks are “arbitrary” and unlawful

    by Jo Faragher 25 Jan 2016
    by Jo Faragher 25 Jan 2016

    The High Court has declared that the Government’s criminal record disclosure scheme is incompatible with the Human Rights Act.

    Ruling...

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    Hiring ex-offenders: staying on the right side of the law

    by Albert Bargery 6 Oct 2015
    by Albert Bargery 6 Oct 2015

    In 2014, the law around hiring ex-offenders changed, bringing with it confusion and a heightened risk of dishonesty and suspicion...

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    Court rules that minor offences be dropped from criminal record checks

    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2014
    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2014

    A Supreme Court ruling has confirmed that job applicants will no longer need to disclose convictions for childhood or minor...

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    Why employers should stop discriminating against ex-offenders

    by Edwina Hughes 21 Oct 2013
    by Edwina Hughes 21 Oct 2013

    Edwina Hughes discusses Business in the Community's campaign to "ban the box" that many ex-offenders are required to tick on application forms.

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    How DHL Supply Chain works successfully with ex-offenders

    by Laura Chamberlain 8 May 2012
    by Laura Chamberlain 8 May 2012

    Trish Hopkinson, senior HR business partner at DHL Supply Chain, tells Personnel Today about the challenges involved in devising a...

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    Majority of employers willing to hire ex-offenders

    by Beth Holmes 9 Nov 2011
    by Beth Holmes 9 Nov 2011

    More than half of employers believe that they have an important role to play in helping ex-offenders back into the workplace,...

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    Governnment urged to overhaul ex-offenders legislation

    by Daniel Thomas 13 Sep 2010
    by Daniel Thomas 13 Sep 2010

    The Government has been urged to overhaul the “outdated” Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, cutting the time before offences become spent...

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