What Are Disclosures?
Disclosures are the documents issued by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO*).
These Government bodies were established to give organisations offering eligible roles a single access point to the records held by the Police, Department of Health (non-medical) and Department of Education & Skills for the purposes of verifying a prospective or existing employee's response to the question "Do you have a criminal record?"
The legislation giving access to these records was passed in 1999 and these bodies began operations in the Spring of 2002.
N.B. Disclosures are different to "Police Checks", which are documents issued by the police at the request of an individual asking for a copy of any data stored on the Police National Computer about them. This information is provided under the Data Protection Act and is therefore only for the personal use of the subject and nobody else has the legal right to ask to see it. Police Checks are also known as "Subject Access" reports.
*also known as Disclosure Scotland