Youth cautions and multiple convictions no longer automatically disclosed under changes to DBS filtering rules

Implementation date: 28 November 2020

The draft Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 amends the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1023) to change the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) filtering rules in England and Wales. Youth cautions (including youth warnings and reprimands) issued to those aged under 18 at the time and multiple convictions are filtered out from criminal records certificates.