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VIEW ALL -- 18/06/2018in Latest, News @ Unlock, News & Media, Press releases and comment, Unlocking Experience, What DBS disclose
Landmark case on disproportionate criminal records disclosure regime reaches Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear the Government’s appeal in a long running case about the disclosure of criminal records. The Government is arguing that their current approach to disclosing old and minor cautions and convictions on standard and enhanced criminal record checks, often decades later, is fair. We disagree. And so did the High... - 07/06/2018in Education, Latest, News @ Unlock, Universities
New paper published: University admissions and criminal records – Lessons learned and next steps
Today Unlock has published a paper, University admissions and criminal records: Lessons learned and next steps. The paper is featured in a blog by Christopher Stacey in Times Higher Education. For the last two decades, access to higher education in the UK for people with a criminal record has been seen to be much more...
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