On the 31 January 2019, the Supreme Court directed the government to fix the broken Disclosure and Barring system.

The Supreme Court ruled that two aspects of the filtering regime - as it applied to multiple convictions and childhood cautions - was disproportionate and in breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Unlock intervened in that case and were pleased to hear last week the government announce that it intended to fully comply with the Supreme Court ruling to filtering.

The planned changes will remove the automatic disclosure of:

• youth cautions, reprimands and warnings (an out of court disposal issued to young offenders that were replaced by youth cautions in 2013); and
• all spent convictions where the individual has more than one conviction (except where disclosed under the other rules).

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