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    • Full index of information
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    • Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
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    • Disclosing criminal records to employers
    • Looking for (and keeping) employment and volunteering
    • Insurance
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    • Travelling to the US
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84 Articles1. About criminal records →

  • Which cautions and convictions will be removed from a standard or enhanced DBS? – A brief guide
  • Criminal records that don’t show (stay) on standard and enhanced DBS checks (filtering and protected cautions and convictions)
  • Single Justice Procedure Notice (SJPN)
  • Extended sentences
  • GDPR and data protection – Guidance for individuals
  • Implications of accepting a police caution
  • Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO)
  • Applying to a court to end a court order
  • Organisations that have access to the Police National Computer (PNC)
  • Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO)
  • Sexual Risk Order (SRO)
  • Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO)
  • Restraining orders
  • DVLA records of driving offences and how they’re shared
  • Spent and unspent convictions – when you might have to disclose them

1 Articles10. Motoring offences →

  • Hiring a car if you have a criminal record

85 Articles2. Work and volunteering →

  • Applying for an anonymity order when bringing a claim against an employer
  • ‘Do I need to disclose my criminal record?’ tool
  • Ban the Box employers
  • Finding a job from the hidden job market
  • Making a claim for wrongful dismissal
  • Leading charities with conviction – Guidance for individuals on changes to the rules on being a trustee or senior manager of a charity with a criminal record
  • Applying for a licence to become a taxi driver
  • Disclosure and Barring Service – An overview
  • Information: Becoming a police officer
  • Spent and unspent convictions and employment law
  • Applying for work through a recruitment agency
  • Explaining gaps in your CV as a result of a criminal record
  • A-Z of job roles and their eligibility for basic, standard and enhanced criminal record checks
  • Types of criminal record checks
  • Challenging an ineligible DBS check

3 Articles3. Self-employment/business →

  • Site re-structure – Please read
  • Things to think about becoming self-employed or setting up a business
  • Commercial insurance

4 Articles4. Education →

  • Funding Opportunities
  • Site re-structure – Please read
  • Education in prison
  • Applying to university

21 Articles5. Insurance, banking and finance →

  • Disclosing unspent convictions to existing insurers
  • Criminal records and credit ratings
  • Funding Opportunities
  • Site re-structure – Please read
  • Motoring convictions and the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
  • Pensions
  • Insurance and convictions – A simple guide
  • Insurance and convictions – A detailed guide
  • List of insurance brokers
  • List of motor insurers
  • Guidance for insurers
  • Basic bank accounts
  • Getting a mortgage
  • Changes to insurance disclosure (from April 2013)
  • Identification (ID) for opening a bank account

29 Articles6. Travel →

  • Settled status: what you need to know if you are an EU citizen and have a criminal record
  • Travelling to Russia
  • Identifying whether your offence is a Crime Involving Moral Turpitude (CIMT)
  • Travelling to India
  • Deportation due to a criminal record
  • EU nationals coming to and staying in the UK
  • Travelling to China
  • Travelling to the US – Do I need a visa?
  • Travelling to Japan
  • Applying for leave to remain in the UK
  • Information contained on UK passports
  • Travelling to the US – Travelling without a visa
  • Site re-structure – Please read
  • Travelling to the US – Will I get a visa?
  • Travelling to US – Applying for a visa

10 Articles7. Housing →

  • Homelessness – the Homelessness Reduction Act
  • Site re-structure – Please read
  • Applying to the council for housing
  • Housing associations
  • Private-rented housing
  • Supported housing
  • Homelessness – General
  • Getting a mortgage
  • Housing – Going into prison and preparing for release
  • Getting help with housing

19 Articles8. Criminal justice system →

  • Covid-19 (coronavirus) – Key information for people with criminal records
  • Supervision in the community (after release from prison and on probation or community order)
  • Criminal legal aid / contributions to legal aid
  • Site re-structure – Please read
  • Community order
  • Going to court
  • Education in prison
  • Victim surcharge
  • Getting copies of court transcripts
  • Disclosure of previous convictions in court proceedings
  • Getting property back from the police
  • MAPPA
  • Changing probation officer
  • Changing probation area
  • Complaints about probation

14 Articles9. Other areas of life →

  • Telling a partner, family member or friend about your criminal record
  • Subject access request (SAR) – General information
  • Information: Relationships, children and dealing with social services
  • Site re-structure – Please read
  • Improving your mental health
  • Going on a game show with a criminal record
  • The ‘google effect’, internet search results and the right to be forgotten
  • Shotgun and firearms licence
  • Compensation as a victim of crime
  • Reporting of criminal records in the media
  • Sources of legal advice
  • Counselling
  • Sources of identification
  • Changing your name

5 Articles9. Sexual offences →

  • Sexual offence convictions: what you need to know
  • Applying to a court to end a court order
  • Information: Relationships, children and dealing with social services
  • Information: Sex offence notification requirements
  • Information: General information about sexual offences

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