States of Jersey job applicants with criminal convictions (FOI)States of Jersey job applicants with criminal convictions (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by States of Jersey and published on
07 November 2018.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
A
How many people with criminal convictions have applied to work in schools in Jersey over the past five years?
B
Could you also share how many people with criminal convictions have applied to work in the hospital in Jersey over the past five years?
C
Could you break this down by year, which schools or which departments in the hospital and the criminal convictions.
D
Could you also let me know how many people were successful and how many people were unsuccessful?
Response
A
Over the past five years, 56 applicants with criminal convictions have applied to work in schools in Jersey.
B
Over the past five years, 39 applicants with criminal convictions have applied to work in the hospital in Jersey.
C
The table below shows the breakdown of the above applications, over the last five years.
Where the table shows fewer than 10, Article 25 (Personal information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 prohibits us from providing further details as supply of the requested detail would contravene data protection principles:
| Area | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Total |
| Hospital | <10 | <10 | <10 | 13 | <10 | <10 | 39 |
| Schools | <10 | <10 | <10 | 20 | <10 | <10 | 56 |
D
Of those 95 applicants who declared criminal convictions on application, 13 were successful in their application and offered a contract of employment within schools and fewer than 10 were successful in their application and offered a contract of employment within the hospital.
Article 25 (Personal information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 prohibits us from providing further details as supply of further detail would contravene data protection principles.
Article applied
Article 25 Personal information
(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.
(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –
(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.
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