Criminal Records Check
	Understanding Disclosure ACEA provides an administration service to assist organisations and individuals who want to process disclosure, be it for recruitment of staff, volunteers, trustees, pastors or personal use. The details below, provided by the Criminal Records Bureau, are modified to answer your recruitment questions: What is a Disclosure? A Disclosure is a document containing information held by the police and government departments. It can be used by employers and voluntary organisations to make safer recruitment decisions. There are three levels of Disclosure: Enhanced Standard Basic Standard and Enhanced Disclosures Both these levels of Disclosures contain details of all convictions on the PNC (Police National Computer) – including ‘spent’ convictions. These ‘spent’ convictions are ones that happened some time ago and normally do not need to be revealed as specified in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Both levels also contain details of any police cautions, reprimands or warnings. Also for posts involving contact with children they contain any relevant information contained on the government department lists held by the Department of Health and the Department for Education and Skills. The key differences The essential difference between Standard and Enhanced is that Enhanced Disclosures are for positions which involve greater (often unsupervised) contact with either children or vulnerable adults. For example, the type of work might involve regularly caring for, training, supervising or being in charge of such people. This difference is reflected in the depth and detail of checking that is carried out for Enhanced Disclosures. In addition to all other checks, Enhanced Disclosures also involve an extra level of checking with local police force records. Other positions that qualify for these Disclosures Higher-level Disclosures are also issued for a broad spectrum of professional occupations and other positions; Standard Disclosures for people entering certain professions such as the legal profession or accountancy (see below*); and Enhanced Disclosures for judicial appointments and certain statutory licensing functions. Basic Disclosures Basic Disclosures are issued to individuals at their own request. It is recommended that employers accept Basic Disclosures only for positions not eligible for either Standard or Enhanced Disclosures. This is because a Basic Disclosure may not contain all the information which would have been available in respect of the post in question via one of the more detailed checks. This level of Disclosure is not currently available.