What to Expect
Identify
This course explores who ex-offenders are, the challenges they face, and how to support them. It covers convictions, sentencing, handling sensitive information, and best practices for engagement.
- What does an "ex-offender" look like?
- Convictions and sentences
- Rehabilitation periods
- Types of sentences
- Understanding the needs of people with convictions
- Timeline of needs
- Restrictions in accessing your service
- Why there is a need for specialist support
- Mythbusters
- Social impact
- Specialist support requirements
- Asking about convictions
- Information security
Support
Guidance on helping individuals navigate disclosure, rehabilitation, and employment. This section covers spent and unspent convictions, disclosure processes, legal frameworks, and practical tools for job searching.
- Disclosure and Barring Service
- Subject access request
- Disclosure Scotland
- The importance of disclosure
- Spent vs Unspent
- Filtering
- Calculating when convictions become spent
- Rehabilitation periods and MAPPA offences
- Supporting with disclosure
- How to build a disclosure statement
- Writing a disclosure letter
- Essential job searching tools
- Vanguard Employers
- Working with statutory services and specialist partners
Advocate
This section focuses on the importance of advocating for individuals with convictions. Covering effective ways to engage with employers, influencing support services, and measuring impact in helping individuals find employment.
- Why is advocacy for people with convictions important?
- Advocating externally for people with convictions
- Specific ways to advocate for people with convictions
- Statutory Bodies
- Banks
- DBS contending and advocacy
- Joining a membership organisation / relevant communities
- Measuring your impact
- Organisational impact
- Individual impact and reporting
- Speaking to employers about people with convictions
- Finding employment for people with convictions
