Disclosure - was "Independent Scheme Assurance Panel"

Roger Hird ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:16:18 +0100


In article <48280861.5030701@callnetuk.com>,
   PeteM <otcbn@callnetuk.com> wrote:
> > 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.

Well, for purposes of the Licensing Act 2003, English licensing
authorities suggest applicants for personal licenses get a Basic
Disclosure from disclosurescotland.

-- 
Roger Hird
roger.hird@argonet.co.uk

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