The Home Office have issued a Press release stating that the Independent Police Complaints Commission is to be expanded to deal with all serious complaints against the police, the Home Secretary announced today. The move was revealed as part of series of measures designed to ensure the highest standards of integrity in policing. In addition to the expansion [...]
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The Independent Police Complaints Commission to be given more staff to deal with complains against the Police.
February 18, 2013 from Leave a Comment
New Act overturns decriminalised convictions
October 4, 2012 from Leave a Comment
This news release first appeared on the Home Office website here From today (1st Oct 2012) anyone with a historic conviction for certain decriminalised consensual sex offences can apply to have these records deleted. Until now, people wishing to work in roles that require background checks have been discouraged from doing so for fear of having [...]
Historic convictions for consensual acts to be deleted
September 12, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Historic convictions for consensual acts to be deleted The Home Office will, from 1 October, begin the process of correcting an anomaly in the criminal records system which has for decades seen gay men unfairly stigmatised. Anyone with a historic conviction, caution, warning or reprimand for consensual gay sex, that meets the conditions laid down [...]
Disclosure and barring – Government update advice for police officers
September 8, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Disclosure and barring Information on changes to disclosure and barring, which will come into force in September 2012, is available in the leaflets below. There is a leaflet covering England and Wales, as well as a separate leaflet for changes in Northern Ireland. There is also a Welsh language version. Date: Thu Jun 07 15:36:00 BST [...]
Police to pilot new scheme through which information about a person’s alleged violent offending can be released to their partners
March 5, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Four police forces will pilot a new domestic violence disclosure scheme, the home secretary announced today. Police in Greater Manchester, Gwent, Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire will run a 12 month trial of the domestic violence disclosure scheme (DVDS) from the summer of 2012. The pilot scheme will test the methods used by police to help victims [...]
Home Office announce taxi drivers will become eligible for enhanced CRB’s
January 27, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Taxi drivers will be eligible for enhanced background checks under new proposals announced today. Today’s proposals will allow taxi licensing authorities to carry out enhanced criminal records checks on their drivers before they are issued with a licence. Current drivers will get additional checks when they renew their licence. Under the current regime, only drivers who pick [...]
Tougher checks for sex offenders
June 16, 2011 from Leave a Comment
The Home Office have announced tougher checks are to be made on known sex offenders Proposals to introduce tougher checks on known sex offenders have been published today. Currently, sex offenders are required to notify the police of personal details such as address and national insurance number annually and whenever details change. But today the [...]
Sex offender disclosure scheme will operate in all forces in England and Wales by April
April 2, 2011 from Leave a Comment
The Government have announced that the sex offenders disclosure scheme will operate in all forces in England and Wales by April. Greater protection for children Sex offender disclosure scheme will operate in all forces in England and Wales by April. Children in all 43 police force areas in England and Wales are better protected thanks [...]
Review on criminal records regime published
February 14, 2011 from Leave a Comment
The independent review by Sunita Mason on criminal records regime titled A Common Sense Approach – which FACT contributed to, has been published. In announcing the Review the Home Office said … “The first phase of this two phase review focused on issues concerned with the extent and demands of pre-employment vetting systems and the [...]
Home Office Announces Extention of Child Protection Scheme
October 3, 2010 from Leave a Comment
Child protection scheme rolled out to more forces Friday, 01 Oct 2010 A scheme that allows parents to find out whether people with access to their family are sex offenders will be extended to a further 11 police forces this month. The child sex offender disclosure scheme provides members of the public with a way [...]
Sex Offenders Scheme to be rolled out across England and Wales
March 5, 2010 from Leave a Comment
The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, has announced the roll-out of the scheme popularly known as Sarah’s Law. The child sex offender disclosure scheme gives members of the public a formal mechanism to make enquires about people who are in contact with children. Under the terms of the scheme, a parent, carer or guardian or another [...]
Home Office rules for counting crimes
March 6, 2009 from Leave a Comment
Our attention has been brought to the Home Office’s Counting Rules for recording notifiable offences. These rules were developed in consultation with the Association of Chief Police Officers, Police Forces and other key stakeholders to provide Force Crime Registrars (FCRs) with policy for crime recording in England and Wales. The Rules were revised to take account of [...]
Parliamentary Question: Re ACPO’s Review of the Guidance for Investigation of Historical Child Abuse
June 22, 2007 from
Claire Curtis-Thomas MP asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the progress of the Association of Chief Police Officers’ review of the guidance for the investigation of historical child abuse. Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office) replied We continue to work with the ACPO Working Group [...]
Government Announce Plans to Safeguard Children
June 14, 2007 from
Protecting children from sex offendersThe following Press Release has been issued by John Reid, Home Secretary (13 June 2007)The Home Office has unveiled a range of tough new measures to enhance the protection of children from sex offenders.A review released today, shows that many options have been carefully considered as part of the effort to enhance [...]
Child sex offenders least likely to reoffend
November 21, 2006 from
A report in the Times (10th November) by Richard Ford states that more criminals are returning to a life of crime within months of serving sentences than when Labour came to power, according to official figures published yesterday. (Home Office Statistical Bullletin -Reoffending of Adults by Shepherd and Whiting, Reconviction Analysis Team, RDS- NOMS) Despite [...]
Home Office Guidance on Complex Investigations
September 16, 2005 from
Our attention has been drawn to Home Guidance on Complex Child Abuse Investigations which was issued in May 2002. Paragraphs 1.9 and 3.2 (g) make reference to the need to ensure safeguards are in place in order not illicit false allegations, and the need for those accused of a false allegation to be treated sensitively.