Amazon Job Application/ Spent Convictions

[jesmond]

brother in law has applied for temporary job at amazon and has been asked to do criminal record check, he has 2 juvenile offences from mid 1970,s and a drink driving from 1998 but as he previously worked in care he has always had to declare these so would he still have to declare these for this job at amazon as it says not to put down spent convictions and he doesnt know if these are classed as spent or not, tia

[Buenchico]

The convictions are long since spent
https://hub.unlock.org.uk/knowledgebase/roa-long-list-of-sentences-and-disposals/
so he does NOT have to declare them.

[barry1010]

The motoring conviction became spent in 2005 and the juvenile offences are spent. He doesn't need to declare them

[jesmond]

thats what we thought thank you

[New Judge]

It depends on the sentences. However the "rehabilitation period" (the period after which the convictions no longer have to be declared) for offences dealt with by way of a fine is one year (or six months if the offender is under 18). For Conditional Discharges and Referral Orders (the usual youth disposal for minor offences) the conviction is spent when the period of the discharge or order is completed. A DD conviction over twenty years old is certainly spent.

[Chinajan]

Will amazon require sight of the DBS certificate?

[New Judge]

//The motoring conviction became spent in 2005//

Why? A driving offence which attracts an endorsement is spent after five years.

[198kHz]

@NJ
The OP said 'drink driving', which is spent after 11 years.

[jesmond]

He has a dbs on the yearly update due to previously working in care if they need it but has looked at the application process and they said they do their own checks so its not needed

[Chinajan]

I thought that might be the case jesmond, although it is possible to do a basic check on oneself.

So it's moot really whether he has to declare anything since they can see for themselves.

[New Judge]

//The OP said 'drink driving', which is spent after 11 years.//

No it isn't.

The "Rehabilitation Period" for all motoring offences which attract an endorsement (but see below) is five years. That's why insurers can only ask you about such convictions for the previous five years. Asking about anything older is illegal. The only time a longer period of rehabilitation would apply is if the driver was disqualified for longer than five years. Then the conviction becomes spent at the end of the disqualification period.

However, driving offences involving excess drugs or alcohol remain active for consideration if a second or subsequent similar offence is committed within ten years of the first. Enhanced minimum mandatory disqualification periods then apply. The endorsement remains on the driver's record for eleven years but that has nothing to do with the rehabilitation period.

Apart from offences which attract custodial sentences of more than four years (which are never spent) the longest rehabilitation period The Rehabilitation of Offenders' Act makes is seven years. That is the period applicable to offences where a custodial sentence of more than thirty months but no more than four years was imposed. All rehabilitation periods mentioned in the Act are reduced by 50% for those convicted when aged under 18.

[198kHz]

Happy to stand corrected NJ. Thanks for info.

[jesmond]

No there has only ever been his offence when under 16 and the one drink driving offence and as it said he didnt have to declare "spent" ones which these are now then he hasnt. Thanks all