It suggests the rules should be relaxed because the current system hinders access to employment, education, housing, insurance and visas for travel.<\/p>\n
Conservative MP Bob Neill, chairman of the Commons Justice Committee, told Sky News: “We’re saying we need something that’s more sophisticated and recognises that people do move on.<\/p>\n
“The objective of the criminal justice system is to help them move on, but particularly if they are young, there is a good track record of their having a nice life after, there shouldn’t be this real risk at the moment, on whether they come up on what’s called a DBS, the criminal records checks, that are done for very many types of employment.”<\/p>\n
As a child, Kathleen Jones ended up with cautions for arson and assault.<\/p>\n
Her criminal records come up every time she seeks new employment, and as a teacher it has stopped her getting jobs.<\/p>\n
“When I was 11, I set fire to some toilet roll in the school and then, when I was 14, I had a fight with another girl who I was friends with at school,” she said.<\/p>\n
“On my record it’s down as something far more severe.<\/p>\n
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“It affects me every day, every time I apply for a job… I feel embarrassed and mortified that I have to drag up reckless mistakes from the past.”<\/p>\n
Between 2014 and 2015, there were 31,753 DBS checks on people with convictions.<\/p>\n
A quarter of those, 8,268, related to youngsters who were under 18 at the time of conviction.<\/p>\n
Craig Saunders, a butcher in Worcester, has employed an ex-offender. The young man has a conviction for criminal damage.<\/p>\n
“If anything took place in the last five years I think I’d want to know,” Mr Saunders told Sky News.<\/p>\n
“Anything beyond that, I’d hope, if they’d left it five years and hadn’t committed an offence, I think they should be given a fair go just to get on with their lives.”<\/p>\n
One proposal is that chief police officers review some cases and have the final say on what job applicants need to tell employers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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