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