Btec Health And Social Care Level 3 Unit 9 P6

is an act which aims to give people who have been convicted or caution of crime a chance in certain condition to start a new life afresh free from criminal records. In this Act, qualified cautions or convictions become spent after a certain period of time which is known in the Act as rehabilitation period, however, the duration of which varies is subject on the nature of the conviction or caution given to the concerned individual. Under the section 4 of this Act, an individual in most cases is to be treated as if he/she has never committed the crime as he/she is regarded as rehabilitated. The Act, however, stated that in exception, in certain profession such as medical and teaching professions who care for vulnerable individuals including children and adults, an individual will still need to disclose his/her spent and unspent cautions and conviction. An individual will have to fill out a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) report detailing every caution and conviction for the protection of the public. This Act is used by employers, the courts, police, the individuals and other agencies such as DBS office. …show more content…
However, according to Beard and Lipscombe, (2015), this Act is not doing enough to rehabilitate offender and as seen as being inconsistent with current sentencing practice, with the result that it can be unsuccessful in its aim to help reformed offenders resettle into the community. For example, rehabilitation period are too long and do not mirror the point at which reoffending ends following a conviction and also, in today sentencing proceedings, length of sentencing are much more longer which contradict the threshold at which sentence never become spent which is 30 month way to low compare to today’s length of sentencings, (Beard and Lipscombe,

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