29 October 2013
Guidance: DBS guide to eligibility
"Organisation: Disclosure and Barring Service.
Page history: Updated 29 October 2013, see all updates.
Policy: Helping employers make safer recruiting decisions.
Collections: DBS checking service guidance.
Eligibility, workforce and supervision guidance for those working with children and adults."
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-check-eligible-positions-guidance
Showing posts with label Gatekeepers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gatekeepers. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Sentencing Is Becoming More Lenient?
Tuesday 15 October 2013
Interview with the Attorney General
"Duration: 28 minutes
In this week's programme, the Attorney General for England and Wales Dominic Grieve speaks to Joshua Rozenberg in an extended interview.
To begin, they discuss the issue of sentencing and the attorney general's role as gatekeeper to the appeals court. How does he go about deciding whether a sentence is lenient or unduly lenient - and therefore worthy of an appeal? What are the factors he takes into consideration? And how can members of the public make an appeal to his office, to ask for a case to be reviewed?
The programme also speaks to Lord Justice Sir Colman Treacy, a senior member of the Sentencing Council, about the council's advisory role, asking whether he thinks sentencing is becoming more lenient.
The conversation moves on to international law, and the recent raids by US special forces in Libya and Somalia, in which a suspected leader of Al Qaeda was detained. Did the United States break international law by taking such action? And what about the British government's decision to push for military action in Syria - would it have been legal?
Finally, many voices within the Conservative Party want to restrict the influence of the European Court of Human Rights. But does Dominic Grieve agree with his cabinet colleagues? He warns of the potential cost to the UK's reputation and to the promotion of human rights around the world.
Contributors include:
Dominic Grieve QC MP, Attorney General for England and Wales
Lord Justice Sir Colman Treacy, senior member of The Sentencing Council
Ann Oakes-Odger MBE, founder of KnifeCrime.org
Dapo Akande, Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03cn0rd
*****
Generally honest and correct, from Treacy and Grieve.
Interview with the Attorney General
"Duration: 28 minutes
In this week's programme, the Attorney General for England and Wales Dominic Grieve speaks to Joshua Rozenberg in an extended interview.
To begin, they discuss the issue of sentencing and the attorney general's role as gatekeeper to the appeals court. How does he go about deciding whether a sentence is lenient or unduly lenient - and therefore worthy of an appeal? What are the factors he takes into consideration? And how can members of the public make an appeal to his office, to ask for a case to be reviewed?
The programme also speaks to Lord Justice Sir Colman Treacy, a senior member of the Sentencing Council, about the council's advisory role, asking whether he thinks sentencing is becoming more lenient.
The conversation moves on to international law, and the recent raids by US special forces in Libya and Somalia, in which a suspected leader of Al Qaeda was detained. Did the United States break international law by taking such action? And what about the British government's decision to push for military action in Syria - would it have been legal?
Finally, many voices within the Conservative Party want to restrict the influence of the European Court of Human Rights. But does Dominic Grieve agree with his cabinet colleagues? He warns of the potential cost to the UK's reputation and to the promotion of human rights around the world.
Contributors include:
Dominic Grieve QC MP, Attorney General for England and Wales
Lord Justice Sir Colman Treacy, senior member of The Sentencing Council
Ann Oakes-Odger MBE, founder of KnifeCrime.org
Dapo Akande, Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03cn0rd
*****
Generally honest and correct, from Treacy and Grieve.
Saturday, 12 October 2013
Its Approach To Those With Convictions Who Are Trying To Rehabilitate Themselves Is Embarrassing
12th October 2013
The Tyranny of the Disclosure and Barring Service
"Britain can learn from Malaysia when it comes to rehabilitating offenders, writes Tracey McMahon
One of the biggest obstacles that people with a criminal conviction face in Britain is securing employment. I have discussed and argued this topic many times during my journey through the criminal justice system, and, as I approach the completion of my sentence, I have a fairly good understanding of how the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) operates.
Over the last 12 months we have seen the effects that the DBS (formerly the Criminal Records Bureau) can have on people with convictions from decades ago. 2012 saw candidates for the role of Police and Crime Commissioner withdrew because of historical offences.
Of course, there has to be screening in place. Arguing for the complete withdrawal of such a process would be futile. But the approach the British have towards the disclosure process is tyrannical to say the least. There is now a whole new business area involving companies that will undertake DBS screening on behalf of other companies (for a fee, naturally) and on most application forms there is a part that makes most people I know with convictions give up the prospect of working for that company."
"Any resident of Malaysia, whether a citizen or not, can apply for what is known as a “good conduct” report from the Consulate General of Malaysia. This costs as little as £3.79 and the turnaround time is around two months. The report will satisfy a job application’s conviction-reporting requirements for any Malaysian company. It truly is that easy."
http://www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk/features/Tyranny-Disclosure-and-Barring-Service
The Tyranny of the Disclosure and Barring Service
"Britain can learn from Malaysia when it comes to rehabilitating offenders, writes Tracey McMahon
One of the biggest obstacles that people with a criminal conviction face in Britain is securing employment. I have discussed and argued this topic many times during my journey through the criminal justice system, and, as I approach the completion of my sentence, I have a fairly good understanding of how the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) operates.
Over the last 12 months we have seen the effects that the DBS (formerly the Criminal Records Bureau) can have on people with convictions from decades ago. 2012 saw candidates for the role of Police and Crime Commissioner withdrew because of historical offences.
Of course, there has to be screening in place. Arguing for the complete withdrawal of such a process would be futile. But the approach the British have towards the disclosure process is tyrannical to say the least. There is now a whole new business area involving companies that will undertake DBS screening on behalf of other companies (for a fee, naturally) and on most application forms there is a part that makes most people I know with convictions give up the prospect of working for that company."
"Any resident of Malaysia, whether a citizen or not, can apply for what is known as a “good conduct” report from the Consulate General of Malaysia. This costs as little as £3.79 and the turnaround time is around two months. The report will satisfy a job application’s conviction-reporting requirements for any Malaysian company. It truly is that easy."
http://www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk/features/Tyranny-Disclosure-and-Barring-Service
Sunday, 18 August 2013
Daily Mail, Get Confused, Again, About Risk, Law And PR Gatekeepers
PUBLISHED: 02:01, 18 August 2013 | UPDATED: 04:47, 18 August 2013
Olympic judo coach barred for sex abuse...but Government say he can STILL work with children
">Disgraced AR, 68, was banned from coaching for life [sic],
>Tribunal found that he had carried out a series of assaults on young pupils between the 1970s and 2003,
>But victims have been left horrified by the decision that he is still fit to work with children.
A former Olympic judo coach has been thrown out of the sport after a disciplinary panel [prejudicial gatekeepers, not Statute] found that he sexually abused children in his care.
Yet the agency responsible for preventing sex offenders and paedophiles [sic] from having contact with young people has cleared him to work with children again. [Low risk, just like you, that is Statute]"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396376/Olympic-judo-coach-barred-sex-abuse--Government-say-STILL-work-children.html
Of course, MW-T has to get his biased, incorrect and profiteering oar in ...
https://twitter.com/mwilliamsthomas
*****
PUBLISHED: 13:38, 26 August 2013 | UPDATED: 13:38, 26 August 2013
1,500 criminal teachers [sic] including paedophiles [sic], drug dealers and thugs apply for school jobs every year (but education chiefs can't tell us how many are in the classroom)
">Majority of criminal acts do not prevent people teaching in UK schools,
>100 heads, 800 teachers and 600 teaching assistants found to have previous,
>Schools get to decide if a teacher should be employed in most cases,
>MP calls for 'transparency' on issue because parents 'have a right to know'."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2395469/2-000-criminal-teachers-including-paedophiles-drug-dealers-thugs-apply-school-jobs-year-classroom.html
Olympic judo coach barred for sex abuse...but Government say he can STILL work with children
">Disgraced AR, 68, was banned from coaching for life [sic],
>Tribunal found that he had carried out a series of assaults on young pupils between the 1970s and 2003,
>But victims have been left horrified by the decision that he is still fit to work with children.
A former Olympic judo coach has been thrown out of the sport after a disciplinary panel [prejudicial gatekeepers, not Statute] found that he sexually abused children in his care.
Yet the agency responsible for preventing sex offenders and paedophiles [sic] from having contact with young people has cleared him to work with children again. [Low risk, just like you, that is Statute]"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396376/Olympic-judo-coach-barred-sex-abuse--Government-say-STILL-work-children.html
Of course, MW-T has to get his biased, incorrect and profiteering oar in ...
https://twitter.com/mwilliamsthomas
*****
PUBLISHED: 13:38, 26 August 2013 | UPDATED: 13:38, 26 August 2013
1,500 criminal teachers [sic] including paedophiles [sic], drug dealers and thugs apply for school jobs every year (but education chiefs can't tell us how many are in the classroom)
">Majority of criminal acts do not prevent people teaching in UK schools,
>100 heads, 800 teachers and 600 teaching assistants found to have previous,
>Schools get to decide if a teacher should be employed in most cases,
>MP calls for 'transparency' on issue because parents 'have a right to know'."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2395469/2-000-criminal-teachers-including-paedophiles-drug-dealers-thugs-apply-school-jobs-year-classroom.html
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