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<p>As a default position, the Civil Service will ‘Ban the Box’ when it advertises
job vacancies.</p><p>There are some business areas across the Civil Service where
it will be inappropriate to apply Ban the Box. This will only occur where there is
a clear, justifiable business need to understand a candidate’s conviction history
at the application stage in the recruitment process. An exception is most likely to
apply to roles that are particularly sensitive in nature, for example; work with children
and vulnerable adults of positions connected to public safety. Permanent Secretaries
are accountable for the exceptions process. The Cabinet Office do not hold a central
record of which civil service roles were not identified as suitable for the Ban the
Box initiative.</p>
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