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Policy FAQs

• Can I recheck my staff and if so how often?
• Where can I find advice about employing someone with a criminal record?
• I’ve got a criminal record. Will this stop me from working for positions that require a Disclosure?
• Can my convictions be removed from the Police National Computer?

Can I recheck my staff and if so how often?

Organisations can determine their own rechecking policy

Where can I find advice about employing someone with a criminal record?

The Nacro Resettlement Plus Helpline 020 7840 6464 can provide you with information and advice about:

• Information included on a CRB check: what it means and its relevance to a particular job.
• Drafting policy and procedures in relation to CRB checks and the employment of people with criminal records

I’ve got a criminal record. Will this stop me from working for positions that require a CRB check?

Ultimately it is for the employer to decide whether somebody is suitable to work in a position. However, having a criminal record should not automatically bar you from a position that requires a CRB check.

If your conviction included being added to the Children's or Vulnerable Adults' Barred lists or a court imposed ban on working in certain professions, then it may be a criminal act to make an application for employment in those areas.

All Registered Bodies must have a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders, which they should make available to you at your request. This is one of the requirements of the CRB’s Code of Practice.

View CRB’s Code of Practice in full here (pdf, 1mb, new window)

Can my convictions be removed from the Police National Computer?

On the 19th October 2009, a judgement by the Court of Appeal supported retention of criminal convictions on the Police National Computer for policing purposes. In particular the police are obliged, under Part V of the Police Act, to provide the Criminal Records Bureau with access to all convictions held on the PNC. Therefore, the stepping down of convictions is no longer undertaken. In effect this means that all convictions will be retained on the PNC until an individuals 100th birth date.

Under Part V of the Police Act 1997, the CRB has a statutory duty to include on a CRB certificate details of every conviction, caution, reprimand and warning that is recorded on the PNC.

The CRB are not 'data controllers' of the PNC therefore do not own or determine how information is processed on the PNC.