Government challenges CRB judgement.

Today’s judgement will effect parents and children, and My Guitar Lessons employers and employees. The Court of Appeal has ruled that the current system which requires the blanket disclosure of criminal convictions, cautions and warnings, is disproportionate and incompatible with the right to a private and family life.

That raises the issue of when crimes committed by children should be expunged from their records. The court has said, firmly, that it will now be a matter for parliament to decide what amendments to make to the current system.

However, the potential implications of the judgement go beyond children. All criminal records checks are carried out under a system which is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

Today’s ruling could apply to all of those checks, effectively throwing the entire system of criminal records checks into confusion.