It will highlight the case for change at the House of Commons on 13 September with a campaign and report called Change the Record.
At present, any custodial record of more than two and a half years must be disclosed for life, even if the offence took place when the offender was under 18. There is a sliding scale for the spending of offences under two and half years.
Nacro is calling for a change in regulations so that only life sentences would have to be disclosed for life with most sentences spent within four years for adults and less for under-18s.
One in four adult males in the UK has a criminal record, which can be a major barrier to finding work. Sentence inflation has meant that offenders are now receiving longer sentences for more trivial offences than in the past.
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