Rehabilitation of Offenders - An Introduction to the Key Issues
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Rehabilitation of Offenders - An Introduction to the Key Issues
Introduction
This bitesize webinar will give those who advise in a criminal capacity an introduction to the key issues surrounding the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- How to advise the client at that early stage in the police station
- The circumstances in which a person need not declare spent convictions or spent cautions when applying for employment
- Understanding how the rehabilitation period is tied into the disposal and the disposals whereby a person is never rehabilitated under the 1974 Act
- The exceptions whereby you may have to declare spent cautions and spent convictions
- Fixed penalty notices and penalty notices for disorder
- An examination of the term ‘buffer period’ in relation to sentences and the difference in the ‘buffer period’ between adults and youths
- Rehabilitation periods relating to motoring offences which carry an endorsement
- ‘Protected status’ in relation to certain convictions and cautions
- Filtering - the term used by the DBS to identify ‘protected’ cautions and convictions
- Standard and enhanced DBS certificates
- Jobs or activities for which, in the words of the Court of Appeal, the ‘utmost integrity’ is required
This webinar was recorded on 7th July 2022