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Hi everyone,
It has been a while since I have posted. Everything has been OK, this proves you can stay with your partner if choose to.
We are 10 years into indefinite registration in Scotland so I suppose I am an old hand at this but things still come up. At the moment it is housing. We are in housing association accommodation but it is too small now. Our children are teenagers and ate still sharing a room, a small room at that so we have joined the waiting list for a larger property. Obviously it takes time and the Environmental Risk Assessment needs done on any property we may be eligible for which limits where we can live even more.
We have built a new life, avoided situations where we would need to disclose my husbands status and both in good employment. We would quite like to purchase a home but how does that work? Is there risk of needing to disclose status if we bought a house near a family with young children? Could he be asked by OMU to move elsewhere? I wouldn't want to put our family in a risky situation when everything had been OK.
Any help is much appreciated.
It has been a while since I have posted. Everything has been OK, this proves you can stay with your partner if choose to.
We are 10 years into indefinite registration in Scotland so I suppose I am an old hand at this but things still come up. At the moment it is housing. We are in housing association accommodation but it is too small now. Our children are teenagers and ate still sharing a room, a small room at that so we have joined the waiting list for a larger property. Obviously it takes time and the Environmental Risk Assessment needs done on any property we may be eligible for which limits where we can live even more.
We have built a new life, avoided situations where we would need to disclose my husbands status and both in good employment. We would quite like to purchase a home but how does that work? Is there risk of needing to disclose status if we bought a house near a family with young children? Could he be asked by OMU to move elsewhere? I wouldn't want to put our family in a risky situation when everything had been OK.
Any help is much appreciated.
Just thought I would bump this post. Sorry I dont have an answer.
You could potentially run into problems with mortgages and insurance if the convictions are unspent. The Unlock website advises people to shop around though, as its not impossible to get either of these.
The police cannot stop someone from living in a certain place, unless there are restrictions in their SHPO. They do have very wide powers of disclosure however, so it probably wouldn't be a good idea to buy a property right next to a school, to avoid false accusations for one thing.
They are only supposed to disclose if there is a clear identifiable risk though, and since there are families with children living in almost every street, it just wouldn't be proportionate for them to disclose to every one of them. The only exception might be if the police considered the person to be a high risk of reoffending, but very few men fall into that category.
The police cannot stop someone from living in a certain place, unless there are restrictions in their SHPO. They do have very wide powers of disclosure however, so it probably wouldn't be a good idea to buy a property right next to a school, to avoid false accusations for one thing.
They are only supposed to disclose if there is a clear identifiable risk though, and since there are families with children living in almost every street, it just wouldn't be proportionate for them to disclose to every one of them. The only exception might be if the police considered the person to be a high risk of reoffending, but very few men fall into that category.