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Problems with the filtering of conditional cautions
Conditional cautions like simple cautions may be filtered from standard and enhanced DBS certificates after 6 years, providing you’ve not…
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Subject access requests (SAR) – General information
Everybody has the right under the Data Protection Act 2018 to make a request to any organisation, for a copy…
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Almost three-quarters of applications for waivers from charity trustees or senior managers who face possible disqualification, have not yet been dealt with by the Charity Commission
New rules that disqualify people from being senior managers or trustees of charities if they have committed certain offences, will…
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Summer 2018 newsletter – What we’ve been up to
Today we’ve published our summer 18 newsletter. The newsletter provides an update of the news at Unlock in the last…
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Blog – Standing up to the government in the Supreme Court – Some reflections on last month’s landmark criminal record disclosure hearing
The latest blog by Christopher Stacey reflects on last month’s landmark criminal record disclosure hearing. For people with criminal…
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Unlock comment: Government announces scrapping of ‘disqualification by association’ in schools
Commenting on today’s news of changes to the childcare disqualification arrangements, Christopher Stacey, co-director of Unlock, said: “Today’s announcement to…
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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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Monthly update – June 2018
We’ve just published our update for June 2018. This months update includes: An advice…
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Monthly summary – June 2018
Welcome to our monthly summary for June 2018. This provides a summary of: the latest updates to our self-help information…
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Media coverage of the Supreme Court hearing
As a result of Unlock’s intervention at the Supreme Court in a landmark legal case on the criminal record disclosure regime,…
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Finding out about your criminal record – Subject Access Requests and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
On the 25th May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) come into effect, changing the way that personal data…
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Landmark case on disproportionate criminal records disclosure regime reaches Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear the Government’s appeal in a long running case about the disclosure of criminal records.…
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Welcome aboard!
We are delighted to announce the appointment of four new trustees to the…
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Overseas organisations that assist people with a criminal record
Receiving a conviction overseas can cause additional complications for individuals be they UK citizens or foreign nationals. Sentences given in…
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New paper published: University admissions and criminal records – Lessons learned and next steps
Today Unlock has published a paper, University admissions and criminal records: Lessons learned and next steps. For the last two…
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Details of the Supreme Court hearing
As part of our work to wipe DBS clean of old and minor criminal records, I wanted to post the…
