DBS check help

billy2shots

Bad advice

Comms69 wrote: »

Ah, in that case you're lucky it will have been spent by now in all likelihood.


The DBS treats convictions as spent or unspent under UK laws.


The fine was spent 12 months after sentence.


The suspended sentence 12 months are the duration of the sentence. So assuming it was 3 years or less, you're fine.


- This is on the presumption that it really is a basic check

Good advice

mac.d wrote: »

You can pay £25 to request your own basic DBS check and see if it shows up for your own piece of mind before your employer does. https://www.gov.uk/request-copy-criminal-record




The different types of DBS check usually relate to spent/unspent convictions (some convictions will never be unspent however), and for specific job types (working with children, or children/adults in a care setting, gaming licences).

Some convictions will always show up otherwise criminals would wait for their DBS to clear so they can prey on the vulnerable again.

Comms69

billy2shots wrote: »

Bad advice





Good advice



Some convictions will always show up otherwise criminals would wait for their DBS to clear so they can prey on the vulnerable again.

Not sure what was 'bad' about my factually correct advice, but ok....

billy2shots

Comms69 wrote: »

Not sure what was 'bad' about my factually correct advice, but ok....

Just because a conviction is spent does not mean it will not show up on a DBS

Comms69

billy2shots wrote: »

Just because a conviction is spent does not mean it will not show up on a DBS

On a basic DBS, yes that's what it means....




https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-checks :
A basic check will contain details of convictions and conditional cautions considered to be unspent under the terms if the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

billy2shots

Comms69 wrote: »

On a basic DBS, yes that's what it means....




https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-checks :
A basic check will contain details of convictions and conditional cautions considered to be unspent under the terms if the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

You are moving the goal posts.

You replied to the OP saying he will be ok when he said the incident was from 2014. Your advice was solely based on time past.

I asked if the DBS was basic or anvanced and the answer was given after your advice. As luck would have it a basic check is being carried out so you can now pretend you knew it along.



Oh and you are still wrong as you have purposely left out vital information from your copy and paste job.

'The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 aims to give those with convictions or cautions the chance - in certain circumstances - to wipe the slate clean and start afresh.

Under the Act, eligibleconvictions or cautions become ‘spent’ after a specified period of time known as the ‘rehabilitation period’, the length of which varies depending on how the individual was dealt with.

Comms69

billy2shots wrote: »

You are moving the goal posts.

You replied to the OP saying he will be ok when he said the incident was from 2014. Your advice was solely based on time past.

I asked if the DBS was basic or anvanced and the answer was given after your advice. As luck would have it a basic check is being carried out so you can now pretend you knew it along.

Are you thick? Genuinely?


Convictions are spent AS TIME PASSES.


And no, I asked when the conviction was, not the incident. I was quite careful about that... if you bother to read.


The answer that it was a basic check was given at 11:25 this morning, my reply was 11:41...


AND event then I said in my post that this was only if it really was a basic check, just to reiterate that.


<mic drop>

billy2shots

Apologies, I saw the quote directed to me so yes you knew it was a basic check.

Your info is still wrong though

Please see above where I followed your link and you decided to withhold certain points.

Oh and thanks for the personal insult 'are you thick'

Are you 12?

Jettimmax12245

Thanks all for the info - fingers crossed ill know in next couple weeks !

Time to think of good excuse if asked why I didn’t declare it

Comms69

billy2shots wrote: »

You are moving the goal posts.

You replied to the OP saying he will be ok when he said the incident was from 2014. Your advice was solely based on time past.

I asked if the DBS was basic or anvanced and the answer was given after your advice. As luck would have it a basic check is being carried out so you can now pretend you knew it along.



Oh and you are still wrong as you have purposely left out vital information from your copy and paste job. - FGS... You literally know nothing about DBS

'The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 aims to give those with convictions or cautions the chance - in certain circumstances - to wipe the slate clean and start afresh.- yes in certain circumstances, BASED UPON THE SENTENCE. Guess what, some sentences are never spent.

Under the Act, eligibleconvictions or cautions become ‘spent’ after a specified period of time known as the ‘rehabilitation period’, the length of which varies depending on how the individual was dealt with.

Indeed. And guess what, a fine is spent after 12 months, and a suspended sentence 12 months after it's duration


Which is why I said that.

Comms69

billy2shots wrote: »

Apologies, I saw the quote directed to me so yes you knew it was a basic check.

Your info is still wrong though

Please see above where I followed your link and you decided to withhold certain points.

Oh and thanks for the personal insult 'are you thick'

Are you 12?

No my info is correct. You don't know the first thing about DBS, spent convictions or frankly much else.