a man has been dismissed from his charity "job" (of driving the sick to hospital) - a post he has been doing for nine years, after it emeraged that a conviction he had (the only one !) from 38 years ago, had not been disclosed !

Soon everyone will be out of work - enhanced CRBs record rumours and allegations as well !!!


The UK is slowly killing itself as a society.

CAMERON has to get rid of CRB ENHANCED checks completely and stop our country ending up in the hands of rumour and inuendo and destruction of all decent people by the CHAV class.

a man has been dismissed from his charity "job" after it emeraged that a conviction he had

Surely it comes down to the type of conviction!

Rape, murder etc.

No matter how long ago, these offences cannot be ignored when the vulnerable are concerned - do you not agree?

But, the man obviously lied to get his good samaritan job; now, why would he have done that?

Terri wrote:

Surely it comes down to the type of conviction!

Rape, murder etc.

No matter how long ago, these offences cannot be ignored when the vulnerable are concerned - do you not agree?

These particular offences were burglary and fiddling his gas meter (38 years ago)

But, the man obviously lied to get his good samaritan job; now, why would he have done that?


Because he wouldn't have got the job if he had told the truth ?

Do you believe that people should be punished FOR EVER ?

Burglary is a no no. But fiddling with gas meter hasn't everyone done that, my late Granddad was a delivery driver for a charity and he was fiddling with his meters trying to make ends meet he even took TV sets home so my old man and his 6 siblings had something to watch.

I came to an end when the landlord evicted them for fiddling the meters and go there own ways but still in contact.

So now because of a silly mistake made in 1972 some people have to miss going to hospital because a voluntary driver is not allowed to help out.

OK - lets ban everyone from any job if they have ever done something wrong in their life.........

Funny how the whole UK will then be unemployable.

This whole "HOLIER THAN THOU" attitude and constant wanting to judge people is totally wrong - totally against Christianity - and is a creation of the NON RELIGIOUS PEOPLE who are running our country who wish to sit in judgement instead of GOD over people - and lack any sense of forgiveness and at the end of the day are HYPROCRITES.

Every MP who fiddled their expenses should be made unemployable as well remember !!!

Innocent Accused wrote:
So now because of a silly mistake made in 1972 some people have to miss going to hospital because a voluntary driver is not allowed to help out.

Exactly !

Whatever the man has done he has already been punished ... but is STILL being punished 38 years later (and lots of innocents are suffering as a result).

NOTE - The Rehalibitation of Offenders Act (which "wipes clean" offences after a certain period of time) does not apply to the NHS, so they can consider convictions for ever.

BR wrote:
OK - lets ban everyone from any job if they have ever done something wrong in their life.........

Every MP who fiddled their expenses should be made unemployable as well remember !!!

Sorry, I forgot to post a link to the actual story -
www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/Volunteer...s-him-job.6456627.jp

How long now till they find another driver. Alot of young people who work in charity shops are doing community service.

[/quote]Because he wouldn't have got the job if he had told the truth ?[/quote]


Now - that must go down as a classic answer!

andrew wrote:
Burglary is a no no. But fiddling with gas meter hasn't everyone done that, my late Granddad was a delivery driver for a charity and he was fiddling with his meters trying to make ends meet he even took TV sets home so my old man and his 6 siblings had something to watch.

I came to an end when the landlord evicted them for fiddling the meters and go there own ways but still in contact.

I think that's an outrageous statement ! Everyone ?.

Many years ago my gas meter inadvertently had a small hole develop in the top and somehow a long pin fell in and stopped the little wheel going around.

The electric bills went down two thirds.

That mishap was corrected when they replaced plastic meters with metal ones

When a person has done their time that should be the end. Absolutely. It should be illegal to prevent a person working because of what they did in the past when they have been punished or done their time.

The Oz Labor government was to introduce a privacy law that would have prevented the media from mentioning past convictions once they had been spent. You can imagine the state the Murdoch media got into over that prospect.

Needless to say the policy has now been abandoned.

an example of the sheer utter madness of today....

"An EMAS spokesman said: "Patient safety is our priority and this is the reason we ended Mr Leadbeater's membership of our voluntary car driver scheme. We understand his disappointment but are satisfied the action taken is appropriate."

..and how on Earth would a patient's safety be in jeopardy because a man fiddled his electric meter 38 years ago ?

He should have become a politician-invaded Iraq and helped blow to pieces thousands of innocents.

He'd get an award or that.

veritas wrote:
..and how on Earth would a patient's safety be in jeopardy because a man fiddled his electric meter 38 years ago .

The really sad thing is that this man is 62 and out of work (so will probably never get a job again).

Instead of just sitting at home and watching Jeremy Kyle, he actually puts something back into his community by doing voluntary work !

This is precisely what the government is trying to encourage !

Rhonda wrote:
Now - that must go down as a classic answer!

In the actual article it says that he was never asked at the time about previous convictions so your statement is a little irrelevant.