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[sineface]

Wondering. When they're asking for the criminal record check, is it necessary to have the full British check, or just to have the Scottish one? I'm Scottish. I have the Scottish one already. I'd like for this to be just fine. Thanks!

[semphoon]

Im Scottish. I got a British one. It took about a month. I wasnt aware there was a Scottish one - just regional (Lothian and Borders for me) or the UK one.

[Hootsmon]

[BS.Dos.]

The one from the MET is the full disclosure, which will list all criminal activity (arrests etc), whereas the Scottish one is a basic disclosure and will only lists those convictions which are considered 'unspent' i.e serious offences that stay on your record for life.

The Basic Disclosure is fine. I first applied for a position in Seoul using a full disclosure, which listed a caution I received when I was 13 (25 years ago) for getting caught playing with an air rifle. Unfortunately (or not as things have turned out. I'm very happy in the school I was eventually posted in), this type of crime was listed as being a firearms offence and is described on the full disclosure under the category of Shotguns. Of course, the recruiter I was using pi55ed herself when she saw it and promptly threw it back at me an told me It'd be unlikely that I'd ever get a teaching job in SK.

Fast forward a month or two and I presented the same recruiter with a basic disclosure, which was obviously clean (the air-rifle offence being considered 'spent' after 2-years) and was on a plane bound for SK about 10-days later.

I can laugh about it now, but I seriously thought that that minor school boy misdemeanor from the early eighties was going to seriously damage my future chances of getting any kind of gainful employment.

[semphoon]