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No record kept of criminals convicted abroad
Hundreds of serious criminals convicted abroad - including killers and rapists - were left off the police national computer because their details were never passed on by the Home Office, MPs were told yesterday.
The extraordinary blunder means they may have been cleared to work with children and other vulnerable people or obtained jobs without their employers knowing of their background. As their details were not entered on to the computer they would not have shown up on checks carried out by the Criminal Records Bureau. .
The Six Best Jobs for Working At Home
Every day I get email asking me how to find legitimate work-at-home jobs. I have to say this always baffles me because every week I wade through thousands of jobs to find a select few to post in my weekly newsletter. The problem I believe is that people look for the wrong jobs in the wrong places. They often limit themselves to jobs like "typing" or "data entry" that are so rare they might as well give up on the idea of working at home.
My suggestion to them is to find work in areas that are hiring. There are many companies looking for home-based employees to do work that doesn't necessarily require a great deal of experience or education. So why not go after these jobs?
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Home Office has known of foreign crimes scandal for three years
Home Office ministers knew as long as three years ago that UK offenders who committed crimes overseas were not being recorded on police computers, David Davis has revealed. Referring to a National Audit Office report published early in 2004, the Shadow Home Secretary accused the Government of "utter incompetence" - just as Tony Blair defended Home Secretary John Reid's handling of the current shambles, in which hundreds of Britons guilty of foreign crimes - including rape and murder - have had the opportunity to seek jobs involving children and the elderly without any official checks. Mr Davis protested: "It now emerges that Ministers knew there was a problem with the records of overseas convictions three years ago. This report clearly shows that the system was not working and that the Government knew that organisations that worked with youngsters including sports organisations were having problems.
Killers cleared to work with our children
HUNDREDS of murderers, rapists and other serious offenders could be working with children or vulnerable people because of a shocking Home Office blunder.
Almost 28,000 documents detailing convictions of Britons abroad have been handed to the Home Office since 1999 but most have not been transferred to the police national computer.
They include 25 rapists, 29 child abusers and five murderers and most of the documents were left gathering dust in box files in a Home Office unit.
Because they were not on the national computer, the convictions would not show up during any employment-vetting check.
Police have now taken over the system and launched an urgent review of the 525 most serious cases to see if any have landed jobs they should not be in.
Most Women Aren't 'Opting Out' of the Work Force, Simmons Study Finds
BOSTON, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Contrary to numerous reports that imply women are "opting out" of the work force in large numbers, a study of professional women released today finds that the great majority of those women are negotiating flexible work arrangements as a way to remain in the workplace, while continuing to see their incomes grow. Study authors say women are leading the way to a new career model for women and men. The study found that more than 90 percent of the women surveyed have used some kind of flexible work arrangements during their careers; 88 percent of them used flexible work arrangements at some point in their careers to remain employed full time while managing complex lives.
Professor Mary Shapiro of the Simmons School of Management in Boston, lead study author, said the study showed that "women are leading the way in how all employees in the future will take more control over managing their careers.
