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Diversity and equality: Ex offenders

Includes criminal records, Criminal Records Bureau, checking criminal records, Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, employing workers with criminal convictions and spent convictions

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‘Accelerate’ – a positive action leadership development programme – is boosting diversity among senior managers in the probation service, writes Laura Chubb

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News

08 September 2008
DWP researches attitudes to recruiting drug users
Employers have the chance to influence government policy on welfare reform, by revealing their attitudes to recruiting people with a history...
08 July 2008
CRB checks hit by errors
Errors at the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) resulted in almost 700 innocent people being wrongly branded as criminals last year, it has emerged....
09 May 2008
Retail sector launches online blacklist of dishonest workers
A new online database, blacklisting dishonest staff dismissed from the retail sector, has been launched.

Features and comment

16 October 2008
Back in business
Unmanageable, untrustworthy, unemployable and feckless: these are the words that often come up to describe the 'untapped talent pool' of people...
17 May 2007
Good behaviour
The case of the Marks and Spencer avocado can tell us, sadly, rather a lot about the fears and prejudices that exist around hiring people with...

HR essentials

18 June 2008
Will the national dismissal register be more trouble than it's worth?
The national staff dismissal register, set up by Action Against Business Crime (AABC), names and shames employees who quit or are dismissed while...
05 December 2002
How to... recruit ex-offenders
In January the crime reduction charity Nacro will publish a report, Recruiting ex-offenders: the employers' perspective, based on the observations...

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06 March 2008
Collective call
Union representation and greater co-operation between employment law enforcement agencies could help to protect vulnerable workers from unscrupulous...