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Monthly update – November 2018
We’ve just published our update for November 2018. This months update includes: New information…
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Monthly summary – November 2018
Welcome to our monthly summary for November 2018. This provides a summary of: the latest updates to our self-help information…
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Homelessness and the Homelessness Reduction Act
The Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 came into force in England on the 3rd April this year. This is the biggest…
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Unlock speaks to Radio 4’s Law in Action – Should having a past block a child’s future?
Unlock talks to Joshua Rozenberg about the issues affecting those who receive criminal convictions in childhood. They also discuss the…
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Unlock Annual Report 2017/2018
We are delighted to publish the Unlock Annual Report 2017/2018. We have achieved…
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Are you from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background and have a criminal record?
A criminal record can be a real obstacle in getting on in life. But what we don’t know is if…
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Monthly update – October 2018
We’ve just published our update for October 2018. This months update includes: New information…
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Monthly summary – October 2018
Welcome to our monthly summary for October 2018. This provides a summary of: the latest updates to our self-help information…
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EU nationals staying in the UK and deportation from the UK due to a criminal record
As the deadline approaches for the UK to leave the EU, the government has introduced a compulsory scheme for all…
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Almost three-quarters of national companies continue to ask about criminal records at job application stage, new research shows
Unlock has today published new research that shows the vast majority of national companies continuing to have criminal record declarations…
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Some examples of people we’ve helped
Looking back over the last couple of months, we’ve written up a few examples of the people we’ve helped. We…
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Autumn 2018 newsletter – What we’ve been up to
Today we’ve published our autumn 2018 newsletter. The newsletter provides an update of the news at Unlock in the last…
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New guidance published to support employers with GDPR, data protection and processing criminal records in recruitment
Today we have published new guidance to support employers to ensure that their policies and practices on collecting criminal records data…
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Monthly update – September 2018
We’ve just published our update for September 2018. This months update includes: A new…
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Monthly summary – September 2018
Welcome to our monthly summary for September 2018. This provides a summary of: the latest updates to our self-help information…
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Call for evidence: DBS checks which reveal trans/gender history because of gender-specific offences committed in the past
The current criminal record disclosure rules are unnecessarily harsh and disproportionate – they mean that standard and enhanced DBS checks…
