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Category: Case studies – Case work

Case study – Thea – “Clear wording on application forms means applicants know what to disclose”

Tuesday, 31 March 2020 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
Thea contacted our helpline for some advice in completing a university application form. Thea explained that she had two old cautions which were eligible for filtering (and so would not appear on her enhanced DBS certificate). However, the wording of the university’s statement and question on their application form implied that she needed to disclose
  • Published in Case studies - Case work

Case of Lawrence – Court wrongly issued information about a spent conviction

Friday, 27 March 2020 by Rachel Tynan
Lawrence contacted us concerned that a crown court had provided information about his spent conviction without the proper authority. Lawrence had a spent conviction from 12 years ago which could still be found on the internet. His local residents’ association had used the information they found online to request a Certificate of Conviction from the
  • Published in Case studies - Case work, Case studies - Organisations, Case work, Housing, Normal life, Policy successes
Tagged under: conviction certificate, gdpr, HMCTS, ineligible checks, spent convictions

Case study – Aishah – University removes Disqualification by Association (DbA) form form their application process.

Monday, 06 January 2020 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
Our helpline was contacted by a lady who was extremely concerned about a form her daughter had received following her university application. The lady explained that her daughter had applied for a teacher training degree and had been asked to confirm that nobody she lived with had any unspent convictions which would mean that she
  • Published in Case studies - Case work

Case study – Darren – “An employer carrying out an ineligible check led to my job offer being withdrawn”

Friday, 27 September 2019 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
Darren contacted our helpline after a job he’d been offered with a local council had been withdrawn following receipt of an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Although Darren’s convictions were all spent (from 30 years ago) and minor, as there was more than one, they were not eligible to be removed (or ‘filtered’) from
  • Published in Case studies - Case work

Case study – Kabir – Confirmation from the ICO that my spent conviction couldn’t be used by an employer when deciding not to employ me

Monday, 29 April 2019 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
In early 2018, Kabir was offered a job working as a Sales Consultant for an IT company based in Wales. As part of the terms and conditions of his employment, Kabir was told that he would need a basic criminal record check which would be carried out by a DBS Responsible Organisation (RO). Although Kabir
  • Published in Case studies - Case work

Case study – Liam – I successfully appealed my employer’s decision to dismiss me due to ‘unsatisfactory conduct’

Tuesday, 02 April 2019 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
Liam contacted our helpline after his employer dismissed him for failing to disclose his unspent conviction. Liam explained to us that he’d originally been employed on a temporary basis through a recruitment agency before being taken on by the company approximately 6 months later as a permanent member of staff. When he’d signed up with
  • Published in Case studies - Case work

Case study – Clive – A potentially ineligible criminal record check led to the DBS considering barring me from working with children and vulnerable adults

Friday, 04 January 2019 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
Clive contacted our helpline for some advice after he’d received a letter from the Disclosure and Barring Service stating that they were considering putting him on one or both barred lists. The DBS believed that he was going to be working in regulated activity and, due to his previous conviction, needed to carry out an investigation.
  • Published in Case studies - Case work

Case study – Dennis – Challenging an ineligible check with an employer

Friday, 04 May 2018 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
Dennis contacted our helpline because his employer intended to carry out an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check for his job. Dennis did believe his job was eligible for an enhanced check. Before the check was submitted, Dennis had disclosed details of his criminal record and was suspended by his employer. Dennis as a
  • Published in Case studies - Case work

Case study – Kelly – Having an insurance policy cancelled due to a comparison company not providing full disclosure

Thursday, 05 April 2018 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
Kelly contacted our helpline after she’d had her insurance policy cancelled due to the non-disclosure of her partner’s criminal record. Kelly explained that she’d used a comparison website to get insurance quotes for a new van that she’d recently purchased. After disclosing her partner’s unspent conviction, she had been surprised to find that the prices
  • Published in Case studies - Case work

Case study – Andy – Having an application for social housing refused on the basis of spent convictions

Thursday, 05 April 2018 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
Andy contacted our helpline after his application for social housing was declined on the basis of his ‘previous criminal convictions‘. Andy explained that he had three previous convictions but these were all spent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act at the time he’d made his housing application. As he’d applied for supported housing, the housing
  • Published in Case studies - Case work

Case study – Penny – Potential barring after an ineligible DBS check and a 33-year old historic ‘love bite’

Tuesday, 10 October 2017 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
Penny contacted our helpline for some advice after her employers, a local council, had requested an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check for a new role in a different department which Penny believed would only be eligible for a basic check. Her job involved dealing with complaints from local residents relating to environmental issues and
  • Published in Case studies - Case work

Case study – Paige – Nearly ‘sacked’ from being a trustee for failing to voluntarily disclose my conviction

Thursday, 06 July 2017 by Debbie Sadler (Advice Manager)
Paige contacted our helpline for some advice relating to a situation which had arisen following her nomination as a trustee of her university’s student union board. Shortly after being elected as a trustee, the student union board had been contacted by another student drawing their attention to newspaper reports of a conviction Paige had received about
  • Published in Case studies - Case work
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