Posts by Ellie Grudgings
We recently worked with a large construction company who wanted to stop asking applicants about criminal records. The HR team and the department managers agreed on a new application form. However, they found that historic application forms containing criminal records questions kept being used for new vacancies. This left them with sensitive criminal records data […]
In 2018, Unlock surveyed 80 well-known national employers’ online application systems to assess their approaches to recruiting people with criminal records. We selected companies based on an in-house poll of large employers. We have now conducted a comparable survey in 2023, to explore whether practice has changed. Read the full report here. We found: Overall, […]
Today Unlock publishes a new briefing, exploring the data we received in a recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The data highlights some of the ways in which our outdated criminal records system can disproportionately impact women. Read the briefing What does the data tell us? Women are […]