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Professions that must have a Disclosure
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act gives individuals the right not to disclose details of 'spent' offences if asked about their criminal record. However, for certain excepted professions, offices and employments, ex-offenders have to disclose information about spent, as well as unspent convictions, provided the employer states clearly on the application form or at the interview that the job applied for is exempted. Exempted occupations are:
General Care and Teaching
* All persons working with Children
* All persons working with vulnerable adults
* A person living at the premises where a childminding or day care service is provided or who regularly works on the premises at a time when the childminding takes place.
* A person living in the same household as a person whose suitability is being assessed for a position working with children and who lives on the same premises where their work with children would normally take place.
* For adoption purposes
* For foster caring purposes
Finance
* Chartered Accountant
* Certified Accountant
* Actuary
* Director, controller or manager of an insurance company
Employment providing investment, insurance or other financial service
* Director or officer of a Building Society
All positions for which the Financial Services Authority or the competent authority for listing are entitled to ask exempted questions to fulfil their obligations under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
* Mortgage Advisor
Healthcare
* Medical practitioner
* Dentist
* Dental hygienist
* Dental Auxiliary
* Nurse
* Midwife
* Ophthalmic optician
* Pharmaceutical chemist
* Registered osteopath
* Professions to which the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960 applies
* Registered chiropractor
* Chartered psychologist
* Any employment or other work concerned in the provision of health services and which is of such a kind as to enable the holder to have access to persons in receipt of such services in the course of his normal duties
Law
* Barrister (or advocate in Scotland)
* Solicitor
* Registered foreign lawyer
* Legal executive
* Judicial appointment
* The Director of Public Prosecutions
* Any employment in the Crown Prosecution Service
* Procurators Fiscal
* District Court Prosecutors
* Any employment in the Procurator Fiscal/District Court Prosecutor/Crown Office
* Justices’ chief executives
* Justices’ clerks and their executives
* Clerks and officers of the High Court
* Police Constables or police cadets, persons appointed as police cadets to undergo training with a view to becoming constables and persons employed for the purposes of, or to assist the constables of, a police force established under any enactment; naval, military and air force police.
* Employment within the precincts of, a prison, remand centre, detention centre, Borstal institution or young offenders institution, and members of boards of visitors (England and Wales) or of visiting committees (Scotland) - for the purpose of the ROA (Exceptions) Order this means any employment which is concerned with the administration of, or is otherwise normally carried out wholly or partly within the precincts of those listed above that are appointed under section 6 of the Prison Act 1952(b) or of visiting committees appointed under section 7 of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952(c).
* Traffic Wardens
* Probation Officers
* Any employment within the Serious Fraud Office
* Any office or employment or other work in the National Crime Squad/National Criminal Intelligence Service
* Any office or employment for Her Majesty’s Custom and Excise
* Any office or employment or other work concerned with the supervision of electronic communications with or between children for the purpose of child protection.
Other occupations
* Firearms dealer
* Occupations concerned in applications to the Gaming board for a licence, certificate or registration.
* Veterinary surgeon
* Occupations in respect of the Explosives Act 1875
* Occupations within the National Assistance Act 1948, carrying on an establishment.
* Occupations as required by Sec1 Abortion Act 1967
Inspectors and staff working for the RSPCA who, as part of their duties, may carry out humane killing of animals.
* For National Lottery licensing purposes
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