Offploy Justice Personnel is one of the social enterprises within Offploy, which focuses purely on providing staff, typically without criminal convictions, for the criminal justice sector. We then reinvest 100% of the profits into the social arm of the company to help more people with criminal convictions find mentored, meaningful employment. Offploy Justice Personnel was officially launched in January 2017. Since then we have worked hard to find people suitable positions tha

If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably already very well aware that finding work if you have a criminal conviction is quite a challenge. In the same way, if you’re an employer willing to give someone with an offending past the chance to turn their life around, you will, again, know that the recruitment process needs to be carefully thought through and sensitively managed. However, this post is about the rather different matter of recruiting people to work in the crimina

Offploy and their partners Prestige Recruitment Specialists are now two of over 100 employers who have taken the step to remove the tick-box question ‘Do you have any unspent criminal convictions?’ from the application process. As a specialist HR advice organisation formed to help businesses recruit people with criminal convictions, it makes absolute sense that Offploy would ban the box – in fact, we actively encourage people with lived experience of the criminal justice sect