Covid-19 (coronavirus) – Key information for people with criminal records
Covid-19 and the social distancing measures introduced to help control it are creating challenges for all of us. For people with criminal records, these challenges can be particularly difficult to...
View ArticleBeen unfairly treated by your employer? Employment tribunals and anonymity...
In many cases, somebody who has been wrongly or unfairly treated by their employer can make a claim at an employment tribunal where a Tribunal Panel will make a decision on what settlement, if any, you...
View ArticleOur support in numbers – 2019/20
As the UK went into lock-down in March 2020, Unlock came to the end of another financial year. In the year April 2019 to March 2020, our helpline was contacted by 7,803 people, 87% of whom had a...
View ArticleChanges to filtering rules – Will you still need to disclose your criminal...
On the 30 January 2019, the Supreme Court directed the government to fix the broken Disclosure and Barring Service system. The Supreme Court ruled that two aspects of the filtering regime – as it...
View ArticleReceived a Single Justice Procedure Notice? What you need to know
In 2015 the Ministry of Justice introduced the Single Justice Procedure Notice (SJPN) to speed up the processing of less serious offences such as rail fare avoidance and minor driving offences. We’ve...
View ArticleTelling a partner, family member or friend about your criminal record
If you want to find the best way of disclosing your criminal record to an employer, then a quick internet search will give you pages of results. With your career and financial security potentially...
View ArticleApplying for a new job? Do you know what you need to disclose to an employer?
Spent? Filtered? Basic DBS check? Standard or enhanced? If you’ve got a criminal record and you’re applying for a new job or volunteering role, it’s important to know if and what you need to disclose...
View ArticleDo you know whether your cautions and/or convictions will be removed from...
Today (28 November 2020) the long awaited changes to the rules on what is disclosed on (and removed from) standard and enhanced criminal record checks come into effect. This is something Unlock has...
View ArticleSexual offence convictions: what you need to know
From March 2013 to March 2020, the number of sexual offences recorded by police forces in England and Wales almost tripled with 154,113 recorded between April 2019 and March 2020. Being accused,...
View ArticleWorking in the healthcare sector with a criminal record
Approximately 1 in 10 of the working population work in the health and social care sector with the NHS being the biggest employer in the UK with 1.7 million staff. With increasing pressure on the NHS...
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