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Protection of Freedoms Bill
Memorandum submitted by Mike Matthews (PF 52)
Public comments on the Freedom Bill
Ref: restricts the scope of the 'vetting and barring' scheme for protecting vulnerable groups and makes changes to the system of criminal records checks
Most of the public replies you receive will undoubtedly come from people like myself , who have had to fight tooth and nail to get our reputations back. My stories should be salutary lessons why amendments made to the information processed should be strictly controlled.
I am an ex-teacher who has a special interest in crb reforms, being victim of the enhanced crb debâcle with limited right to appeal beyond the ICO, and unlawful use of enhanced crbs to filter staff used by a former employer.
I have never been convicted of a criminal offence. I have no warnings, cautions or reprimands. However, I have a large cancerous growth on my character - my enhanced crb. This growth states I was charged but found not guilty of downloading indecent images. It makes no reference to the reporting of sites I made and the context in which the images appeared - they were pre-cached without my knowledge. Since then, I have had ISA clearance to work with children. However, the trauma of what I went through meant I could never consider working with kids again. I am now a successful adult tutor with the reputation I once had in the primary sector, but with a big stigma attached to my character by the ecrb disclosure.
I have asked the police to amend my enhanced crb, but the Chief Constable of Leicestershire, Simon Cole, has repeatedly refused stating there are no grounds to, even when the evidence is presented to him. He has denied that I made reports to the IWF about paedophilia even when the pre-trial Court hearing acknowledged the reports could be attributed to me. I am having to go through the ICO to get this looked at and hopefully amended, and a filial lawyer is taking up my case.
Furthermore, I used to work for Working Links, who sacked me because of these allegations appearing on my enhanced crb, even though I had an excellent work record and I did not work with children. Working Links had, like many firms, applied for blanket enhanced crbs and in the end, I got them to pay money to 5 charities helping ex-offenders for me desisting from a press campaign. In the meantime, they had suspended me and made me have a medical to see if I was of fit mind to work with children ! Can you believe it ? I worked with adults, I made a huge difference to their job prospects and the company acknowledged this, but I had to undergo a punitive investigation where my suitability to do the job came into question, all because they had unlawfully put on the application ‘ Working with children’…and even if I had, the ISA had cleared me ! No matter, once they see things on your enhanced crb , they make prejudicial judgements. It changes, affects, ruins lives !
Memorandum submitted by Mike Matthews (PF 52)
Public comments on the Freedom Bill
Ref: restricts the scope of the 'vetting and barring' scheme for protecting vulnerable groups and makes changes to the system of criminal records checks
Most of the public replies you receive will undoubtedly come from people like myself , who have had to fight tooth and nail to get our reputations back. My stories should be salutary lessons why amendments made to the information processed should be strictly controlled.
I am an ex-teacher who has a special interest in crb reforms, being victim of the enhanced crb debâcle with limited right to appeal beyond the ICO, and unlawful use of enhanced crbs to filter staff used by a former employer.
I have never been convicted of a criminal offence. I have no warnings, cautions or reprimands. However, I have a large cancerous growth on my character - my enhanced crb. This growth states I was charged but found not guilty of downloading indecent images. It makes no reference to the reporting of sites I made and the context in which the images appeared - they were pre-cached without my knowledge. Since then, I have had ISA clearance to work with children. However, the trauma of what I went through meant I could never consider working with kids again. I am now a successful adult tutor with the reputation I once had in the primary sector, but with a big stigma attached to my character by the ecrb disclosure.
I have asked the police to amend my enhanced crb, but the Chief Constable of Leicestershire, Simon Cole, has repeatedly refused stating there are no grounds to, even when the evidence is presented to him. He has denied that I made reports to the IWF about paedophilia even when the pre-trial Court hearing acknowledged the reports could be attributed to me. I am having to go through the ICO to get this looked at and hopefully amended, and a filial lawyer is taking up my case.
Furthermore, I used to work for Working Links, who sacked me because of these allegations appearing on my enhanced crb, even though I had an excellent work record and I did not work with children. Working Links had, like many firms, applied for blanket enhanced crbs and in the end, I got them to pay money to 5 charities helping ex-offenders for me desisting from a press campaign. In the meantime, they had suspended me and made me have a medical to see if I was of fit mind to work with children ! Can you believe it ? I worked with adults, I made a huge difference to their job prospects and the company acknowledged this, but I had to undergo a punitive investigation where my suitability to do the job came into question, all because they had unlawfully put on the application ‘ Working with children’…and even if I had, the ISA had cleared me ! No matter, once they see things on your enhanced crb , they make prejudicial judgements. It changes, affects, ruins lives !
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