Hi

The basic level of checks includes criminal record searches known as 'basic disclosures' otherwise referred to as "criminal conviction certificates."

This is the most basic CRB check and level of criminal disclosure available to most third parties for any purposes. This criminal record service provides you with details of convictions that are considered unspent (where under certain circumstances an offender is allowed to have a 'wiped' criminal record after an agreed period).

When you search criminal records through this basic disclosure this information will only be issued to applicants when it is not job related and is available on any number of times when requested.

When an offender with a criminal record does not re-convict and is on a special agreement that wipes them from being located on a criminal search at basic level, it's as though a conviction never existed. During an interview or when completing a written application form which requests details directly from them referencing their previous convictions, these ex-offenders are quite lawfully allowed to answer 'no'.

If a person has a 'spent' sentence on their criminal background check at the basic level the employee may never know all the facts and it is illegal to discriminate against ex-offenders with 'spent' convictions.

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