The protection of vulnerable adults requires us to carry out checks on police records for applicants whose assignments will give them substantial access to vulnerable adults. You are advised that this post is exempt from the provision of Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. You are not entitled to withhold information about any criminal convictions which for other purposes are "spent" under the provision of the Act. The information given will be treated in the strictest of confidence and only taken into account where the offence is relevant to the post to which you are applying. Failure to declare a conviction may require us to exclude you from our register or terminate an assignment if the offence is not declared but later comes to light