Promotion with spent criminal record

Norman_Castle

Check the rehabilitation of offenders act, its got a new name but I don't know it. If the job requires enhanced disclosure your employer should have asked for it.

Not sure of the details but I believe its an offence to share information about spent convictions. I'm not sure a solicitor could justify using a 36 year old conviction for not payment of a fine. The Probation Service might be able to advise. Personally I wouldn't worry about it.

https://www.gov.uk/tell-employer-or-college-about-criminal-record

Two week sentence is spent after two years.

https://www.gov.uk/tell-employer-or-college-about-criminal-record/prison-sentences

NI_Sense

Norman_Castle said:

Check the rehabilitation of offenders act, its got a new name but I don't know it. If the job requires enhanced disclosure your employer should have asked for it.

Not sure of the details but I believe its an offence to share information about spent convictions. I'm not sure a solicitor could justify using a 36 year old conviction for not payment of a fine. The Probation Service might be able to advise. Personally I wouldn't worry about it.

Think it's now the 1978 rehabilitation of offenders act now. The job requires basic disclosure. 

Savvy_Sue

You could also speak to NACRO. They'll be able to advise on how you could disclose it even if you don't HAVE to, which might take away the worry of it accidentally coming out. Such disclosure should be very limited, eg where I work no more than two people would ever HAVE to know about a DBS that wasn't blank, it certainly wouldn't be common knowledge across the organisation. 

TBagpuss

I agree with the recommendation  to speak to NACRO, who should be able to advise you or point you in the direction of a specialist.

I don't think that there is much risk of it coming up in court - for one thing, it's very hard to see how it would be relevant - an historic conviction doesn't make any difference to your knowledge or qualifications as a statistician so it would not be relevant, and it was not an offence involving dishonesty so is irrelevant to your trustworthiness or reliability.