post office ltd and criminal record check

laura678

At the end of the day the employer interviewed 10 other applicants, so no doubt he will just go to the next candidate anyway and not give it a second thought. I do understand why he may be shocked to find out that I have multiple convictions, it is not something I would normally have to declare. What I just don't understand is you get people who have been in prison for murder and then come out and get given a new identity, a new life. But yet, for somebody like me it will stay on my record forever. The DBS have filtered single spent convictions, but mine are multiple offence convictions from when I was as young as 12/13, I am now coming up to my 40th birthday. I don't try and make excuses for committing crimes but honestly if I had been in better circumstances I'm certain I wouldn't have done those things. My situation was I was in the care system, my parents were deemed unfit, I lost both my sisters, we were all split up, I've never met one of them since I was 10 years old. And so I was angry and probably looking for any kind of attention and committed crimes, I was then kicked out of the care system at 15, I begged my parents to take me home, but I was left on the streets for 3 years, literally living in shop doorways and travelling round the UK to try and get a bed for the night, so yes I did do a lot of stealing to survive as I had nobody to turn to. That was my life then but its not who I am today. I am a mother, I have a home and a partner and have not committed an offence since the day I found a place to call home. Some people will judge, I know. A job should be based on whether I am capable, which I am, I educated myself later in life, just a shame that my past has a habit of rearing its ugly head time and time again.

BigAunty

laura678 wrote: »

But yet, for somebody like me it will stay on my record forever. The DBS have filtered single spent convictions, but mine are multiple offence convictions from when I was as young as 12/13, I am now coming up to my 40th birthday. .

Did you even look up the changes to the higher level disclosures following the Supreme Court case that the government lost?

One of the defendents who won their case accepted a caution for stealing a bicycle as a teenager. Many years later, it was causing issues with employment and gaining a place at college. The judge found in their favour.

Disclosure Services cannot necessarily now publish all convictions for higher level applications. See if their website gives information about how they exclude some, the criteria they use. If the website doesn't show any information on this, call their customer service dept.

usefulmale

BigAunty wrote: »

Did you even look up the changes to the higher level disclosures following the Supreme Court case that the government lost?

One of the defendents who won their case accepted a caution for stealing a bicycle as a teenager. Many years later, it was causing issues with employment and gaining a place at college. The judge found in their favour.

Disclosure Services cannot necessarily now publish all convictions for higher level applications. See if their website gives information about how they exclude some, the criteria they use. If the website doesn't show any information on this, call their customer service dept.

BigAunty - From memory, the result of that case means that only certain offences are filtered IF you only have one conviction / caution. Multiple convictions / cautions are always disclosed.

BigAunty

usefulmale wrote: »

BigAunty - From memory, the result of that case means that only certain offences are filtered IF you only have one conviction / caution. Multiple convictions / cautions are always disclosed.

Again, I am not specifically challenging your point, nor can I directly answer the OPs question.

However, in Scotland where I live (granted perhaps the CRB/DBS system in England/Wales could be different), there's nothing in the info I've found that suggest that all multiple convictions are always disclosed whereas a single offence may be filtered out.

It's quite complicated but if I've understood the process in Scotland, each conviction is treated to the same potential filtering out process so a person can have many spent convictions that are missed off their disclosure certificate if they meet the conditions. The only exception is when the multiple offences are related to one conviction (I assume, for example, when someone commits a single act that breaches many laws).

"Where an applicant for a higher level disclosure has multiple convictions on their record, Disclosure Scotland will treat each conviction as if it is the only conviction on the record and apply the rules accordingly. Disclosure Scotland will, however, continue to issue information about spent convictions for multiple offences which form part of one conviction due to the way in which the offences were charged and recorded."

http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/about/SummaryofChanges.htm

The way the OP describes it, they may have committed a series of separate offences across different dates. However, if they aren't in Scotland (sounds like they are not), they need to check the rules with DBS.

BigAunty

Some info here for the OP on filtering

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dbs-filtering-guidance