Department of Health and Social Care: Recruitment
(asked on 13th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's implementation plan is for banning the box on job applications.
This question was answered on 19th April 2018
In February 2016, the Civil Service adopted the ‘Ban the Box’ policy as a default position, when advertising job vacancies. Cabinet Office guidance was issued to departmental recruitment and HR teams to support the implementation of this policy.
Civil Service Jobs does not ask candidates about their criminal convictions at the application stage so the Department was already compliant with the Ban the Box initiative.