The #FairChecks campaign argues that cautions and convictions – even for minor offences – carry a hidden punishment which holds people back in employment, education and housing, long after they have served their sentence and is calling for slates for minor offences, committed as a young person to be wiped clean.
One advocate shares their story:
I had, from the ages of 16 to 21, been arrested for petty offences from back when I was a troubled teen. No account was taken that in nearly 30 years I had changed my life and had not re-offended. Making me a trusted citizen like everyone else in society".
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