Hey hun,
Don't give up. I was convicted of a charge I didn't even commit back in 1997. It was filtered out last year under the new regulations and I had a clear DBS.
By the way I am a Senior Social Worker and although I feel ashamed all the time about it I have to sit with my manager and explain and when you explain it they understand.
Remember there are laws to help and support offenders. Also, you didn't harm anyone, or your not an axe murderer. It will pass be honest with it, own it and just explain it.
I understand its difficult amid the minority that are purely judgemental and stigmatise but us offenders petty or otherwise need a chance and society needs to acknowledge
that some of us are goodhearted and very decent people behind that conviction. I wish you all the best hunny. Believe me it will be ok. Kate x

There are three different types of DBS checks and guidance about them is here.

As Damag3d says, some offences are 'filtered' and the guidance for that is on this page. Surprisingly possession of an offensive weapon will be filtered but destroying a Channel Tunnel train or pointing an offensive weapon against the Sovereign will never be filtered. There's a spreadsheet on one of the filtering guides that lists all of the offences that are never filtered. I'm not an expert but I think yours should be filtered - albeit in 11 years time.

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I haven't stolen any Pineapples, but they are a great prog rock band!

I havent stolen any Pineapples, but they are a great prog rock band!

The first place I would look is here for insurance. The link is the Unlock motor insurance list and this is the link for other insurance information that Unlock has.

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I haven't stolen any Pineapples, but they are a great prog rock band!

I havent stolen any Pineapples, but they are a great prog rock band!

Hi MaybeOneDay,

You are absolutely right, things could be worse and someone will give you a chance eventually. Yes it is hard going but the good thing is that you haven't given up.

I can empathise with your non-successful application from Greggs. A couple of weeks ago I had a brilliant interview for a job and I came away thinking that they would be hard-pushed not to employ me unless they had a really good internal candidate. Disclosure wasn't a problem at all (I may have posted elsewhere about that). I wasn't successful but an hour after requesting feedback which has to be requested via their HR department, they phoned me back with an interview offer for the same job in a different location. Admittedly I'd forgotten I'd applied for it. So what I'm trying to say is although I wasn't successful in that interview, I'm obviously good enough to be considered for the post but there was someone that must have just edged it. It brings to mind Alan Sugar deciding who's going to win the Apprentice*


Getting your foot in the door is a good analogy. I feel as though I've got my toes just about in but not quite ready for the shoulder barge yet.

Don't feel that you've let your kids down, you haven't. You've done your best for them and are still trying to do your best for them.

Good luck with your future applications and don't be put off by applying for anything.



*No I'm not Katie Hopkins!

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I haven't stolen any Pineapples, but they are a great prog rock band!

I havent stolen any Pineapples, but they are a great prog rock band!

I do have a conviction yes. It will be spent after a year as far as I know.

So many people have said to just tick the no box and I feel so conflicted about doing it as I am such a honest person LOL, although my record says otherwise to employers I suppose.

Good luck with your other interview pineapplethief

Hi, I'm new to the forum and find myself here after getting a criminal conviction in December of last year. I'll try to be brief, but I do tend to waffle on lol.

Basically at the end of November 2014 I received a summons to court for Dishonestly failing to declare a change in circumstances, to the city council, resulting in me getting housing and council tax benefit when I was self employed. I'd been interviewed under caution about this 18mths prior and provided them with evidence asked for, but heard nothing from them in 12mths. I had less than 2 weeks to plan for my day in court, whereas they'd had much longer.

The charged stemmed from when I was working as a self employed childminder. I'd signed off JSA and registered as self employed, informed tax credits etc and thought I had told the housing department. I hadn't paid much attention to letters from them, as because my earnings from self employment were so low (£50 a week) I was still entitled to full housing and council tax benefit anyway, so nothing would have changed there anyway.

Originally I was charged with two counts of dishonestly failing to notify, but that meant I had deliberatly set out to deceive and gain money, which I hadn't, and so I wanted to plead not guilty. I was told that there was a chance, although small, that I could be given a prison sentence. I am a single parent of 3, one whom has mental health problems, and so I just couldn't take the risk. I explained my position to my barrister and he suggested that he ask the prosecution if they would accept a guilty plea to just failing to notify, so taking away the dishonestly part, and they agreed, so I plead guilty.
The magistrates at the hearing accepted that I had informed everyone else that I needed to, and that it seemed to be an oversight on my part, but that it was my own fault for not taking more care. I was fined £500 and ordered to pay £120 costs, plus repay all of the benefits i'd received (despite being entitled to them anyway).

Since then life has just stopped, I can't get a job doing anything at all, and my future hopes of going to college and then onto university to study nursing are pretty much over. I am 'lucky' in that at the moment I am not being made to look for work, as I am carer for my daughter, but I want to work.

I feel so angry that what was basically a mistake has ended up with my probably having to spend my life on benefits

Thank you have now got a much cheaper quote with one of those

That is very true

Could really have done with being able to get a job, as I've just had to start looking for car insurance prices and it's going to cost me an extra £500 this year. I know it's only one year, as they I won't have to disclose it but fgs.

Still not having any luck finding a job It is so frustrating.

Tried to apply at KFC and yet again didn't even get to complete the whole form, because as soon as it asked about criminal records and I replied yes, I was suddenly unsuitable for serving up fried chicken.