"Independent Scheme Assurance Panel" report on ID cards published.

[PeteM]

David Hansen wrote  on 12-05-08 09:43:
> On 12 May 2008 at 8:33, PeteM wrote:
> 
>> I do not know about others, but the UK system was designed to deal with 
>> spent convictions by treating them the same as any other. It returns all 
>> convictions (or convictions and suspicions in the case of an enhanced 
>> check) no matter how old they are, and leaves it to the applying 
>> organisation to apply ROOA.
> 
> There is no UK system, though I gather the systems in the  
> countries/principality/province that form the UK are fairly similar.

Sorry David :) of course I meant the English system.

> In this country there are three levels to this scam 
> <http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/typesofdis.htm>. Two versions of 
> the scam include spent convictions, one does not.

In England, there are officially three categories; Basic, Standard and
Enhanced. Standard included all convictions whether ROOA-spent  or
otherwise; Basic was supposed to include unspent convictions;
Enhanced, all convictions and suspicions.

However, Basic checks were not in practice available because the means 
of doing them hadn't been created. There were plans to introduce them 
but the actual implementation was put off several times. I do not know 
whether it ever got done; as I say, they hadn't been when I last looked.

-- 
Pete Mitchell