Closed call for evidence

Supporting Ex-Offenders on their Path to Employment: A government Call for Evidence

• From: Cabinet Office and Ministry of Justice
• Published: 4 July 2018
• Last updated: 11 October 2019 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Summary

A Call for Evidence asking for case studies from public, private and voluntary sector employers and organisations which support ex-offenders to find employment.

This call for evidence ran from
12:30pm on 6 July 2018 to 5pm on 31 August 2018

Call for evidence description

What do we want to know?

Through this Call for Evidence we want to improve our understanding of:

Inclusive Recruitment Practices

What are employers doing, if anything, to create fair opportunities for ex-offenders to compete for jobs within their organisations in the UK?

What information or support would help employers to make the decision to remove the criminal conviction declaration tick-box from their job application forms?

Employability Initiatives

Aside from inclusive recruitment practices, what types of initiatives and support are being offered by employers, organisations and charities to help improve the employability of ex-offenders and/or reduce the stigma associated with recruiting ex-offenders?

Evidence and Impact

What impact have these recruitment practices and employability initiatives had on businesses and ex-offenders, and what level of research exists to substantiate these findings?

Who do we want to hear from?

Anyone can respond to this Call for Evidence, however we are particularly interested in receiving responses from public, private and voluntary sector employers, organisations and professionals who:

• proactively hire people with a criminal conviction and/or offer fair opportunities for people with a criminal conviction to apply for vacancies

• impose restrictions and/or bans on the hiring of ex-offenders for some or all jobs depending on the offence(s) committed

• work directly with ex-offenders to improve their employability for example, through the provision of skills training, outreach, mentoring, work placements, etc

• work with or advise other organisations on creating fair recruitment practices and supporting ex-offenders in the labour market

• campaign to reduce the stigma associated with having, or hiring someone with, a criminal conviction

How should you respond?

If you would like to respond to this Call for Evidence, please complete the Response Form provided at Annex A of the Call for Evidence document and save it as a Microsoft Word document or PDF.

You should email your completed Response Form to aandi-socialresearch@cabinetoffice.gov.uk by 5pm on Friday 31 August 2018.

If, for exceptional reasons, you need to submit a hard copy, then please post your Response Form to the address listed on this page.

Documents

Government Summary of responses to Going Forward into Employment

PDF, 725 KB, 16 pages

Supporting Ex-Offenders on their Path to Employment: A government call for evidence

MS Word Document, 80.2 KB

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Published 4 July 2018
Last updated 11 October 2019 + show all updates

1. 11 October 2019

   Government Summary of responses to Going Forward into Employment added.

2. 4 July 2018

   First published.