IMPORTANT NOTICE

Please read the following information carefully before signing and submitting your application.

The post you are applying for is ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore, you are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not ‘protected’ (i.e. filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended). The amendments to the Exceptions Order provide that certain ‘spent’ convictions and cautions are ‘protected’ and are not subject to disclosure to employers, and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website. Further information can also be found on the Nacro website.

Disclosure of criminal records will be requested from Disclosure and Barring Services to assist with decision-making for this role.

Please note: A criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to an applicant obtaining a volunteer position.

A copy of the following policies are available on request:  the Home-Start Warrington Ex-Offenders Policy, the Code of Practice and the Home-Start Warrington Policy on Handling Disclosure information.

If you answered yes to any of the above, please disclose the details under separate cover. Preferably by email to [email protected]

CONFIDENTIALITY

During the course of their work, volunteers will be aware of information concerning the Charity’s activities, its staff and other personal information relating to children and their families. I understand that this is confidential information must not be used for any purpose other than the performance of duties and must not be divulged to unauthorised persons, nor used for the production of articles, books etc. without the Charity’s specific agreement.

YOUR DATA

All of the information collected in this form is necessary and relevant to the performance of the volunteer role applied for. We will use the information provided by you on this form, by the referees you have noted, the educational institutions with whom we may undertake to verify your qualifications with and any criminal record checks for recruitment purposes only. Home-Start Warrington will treat all personal information with the utmost confidentiality and in line with current data protection legislation.

Should you be successful in your application, the information provided, and further information which will be gathered at the relevant time, will be subsequently used for the administration of your volunteering with us.

For more information on how we use the information you have provided, please see our [privacy notice which is available on the Home-Start web site – signpost as necessary to your local Home-Start privacy notice].

I confirm that the information given on this form is correct and that I have not knowingly withheld any material fact.  Under the Data Protection Act 2018, I hereby consent for the information in this application form, about myself and others, to be processed by Home-Start Warrington for the purposes of recruitment. I hereby give my permission to those individuals or organisations contacted for the purpose of this background check to give their full and honest evaluation of my suitability for the described volunteer role and other information as they deem appropriate.

For successful applicants this application form will subsequently be held on their personnel file, and those who are unsuccessful, it will be held for a maximum of 6 months and then destroyed.