Depending on the role for which a candidate has applied, employers may need to find out whether or not the individual has any criminal convictions before he or she can start work.
Employers can check job applicants’ criminal records with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). HR departments normally deals with DBS disclosures.
Nacro, the charity for ex-offenders, has called for the introduction of a new licensing authority to stamp out discrimination as...
Ex-offender charity Nacro has called for the introduction of a new licensing authority to stamp out discrimination resulting from criminal record checks
The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) is consulting on its proposals to increase disclosure fees
The government has been urged to reform the process of checking criminal records for school staff.
Language moves eastGerman and Russian are moving up the league table when it comes to learning a second language in...
The subject of employing so-called ‘core jobless’ people is always an emotive one. There is still extreme reluctance among organisations...
The government has been urged to do more to change ingrained employer attitudes about recruiting ex-offenders and other ‘core jobless’...
Employers are regularly told that they cannot rely on the police to do the job of investigating for them and that they should conduct their own inquiry
More than 60% of employers would not employ anyone with a criminal record, a history of drug or alcohol problems or long-term sickness
The UK’s employee vetting body the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) is failing employers by supplying information about candidates that is...
Recruitment procedures and arrangements for checking that employees are suitable to work with children are still inadequate, a government report has claimed
Recruitment procedures and arrangements for checking that staff are suitable to work with children are still inadequate, according to a...
Plans by bus operators to introduce criminal record checks on all bus drivers miss the point of the problems with...
Too many businesses are ill-prepared for the possibility of a terrorist attack, according to an NOP poll for the Institute...
The Commons Home Affairs committee has recommended that jobs usually filled by Eastern European migrants should be offered to ex-offenders
