News & Updates

We recently sent out a mailshot on behalf of The Co-operative Insurance who were looking for people with burglary convictions…

Today we’ve published our Autumn Newsletter. The newsletter provides an update of the news at Unlock in the last three…

Looking back over the last couple of months, we’ve written up a few examples of the people we’ve helped. We…

We’ve just published our update for September 2015.             This months updates include: Information on…

Welcome to our monthly update for September 2015. This update provides a summary of: the latest updates to our self-help…

New electronic access to drivers’ licence details has sparked concerns that firms are misusing information about drivers’ past convictions. Motorists…

We’re quoted in an article in The Telegraph on how needlessly telling insurance firms about expired penalty points for speeding…

We’ve submitted our written response to the consultation by the Department of Justice Northern Ireland on plans to introduce a filtering…

At Unlock, we like to think of ourselves as making good use of social media as an effective way of…

Last week, the Scottish Government announced details of a process that will apply to Standard and Enhanced checks that are…

We’ve just published our monthly update for August 2015.             These updates provide a summary…

In an interesting development to the issue of the ‘google-effect’ and spent convictions, the Guardian has reported that Google has…

Welcome to our monthly update for August 2015. This update provides a summary of: the latest updates to our self-help…

Following up on my previous article, here is the second part of my blog originally published as a Clinks Guest Blog, in which I look…

As part of our policy and campaign work, we always have to make the case for why people with convictions…

The Localism Act 2011 gave local authorities and social housing providers some discretion to exclude people on the grounds of…