Employment vetting: are we nearly there yet?

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Getting the employment vetting system right is a challenge for both lawyers and politicians.  Extremely difficult policy considerations are laden with legal complexities. Serious human consequences can arise from inadequacies and inequalities in the system.
The task is further complicated by an outmoded legal framework open to abuse by unscrupulous employers.  This prevents a fair balance from being struck between the key policy concerns of individual fairness, rehabilitation and protection of the vulnerable.
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (the …