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This check establishes if an individual has a criminal record.

What does it check?

This check establishes if an individual has a criminal record.

This check provides what is referred to as a Criminal Record Extract: Working With Children. 

A criminal records extract for working with children is an extract of the criminal records that is available for employers, authorities, educational institutions or voluntary organisations. This certificate is available for those who mainly and permanently work with underage children in education, teaching, nursing or similar roles and establishments.

This extract will only include criminal record information that is thought to have special significance to the work with children. Therefore, the extract contains information about judgments for the following offences:

Categories of Criminal Conviction
• A criminal record contains the following judgments
• Unconditional imprisonment and conditional imprisonment
• Monitoring sentence
• Conditional imprisonment, plus fine (supplementary fine), community service or monitoring
• Community service instead of unconditional imprisonment
• Juvenile penalty, or fine instead of a juvenile penalty
• Dismissal
• Punishment waived due to criminal irresponsibility
• Only these fines and conversion sentences for unpaid fines are saved in the criminal records. If no offences in these categories are recorded, this will be stated on the certificate. However, the existence of any other types of conviction will not be indicated.

1. Offences against children
•    Distribution of sexually obscene pictures
•    Aggravated distribution of sexually obscene pictures depicting children
•    Possession of a sexually offensive picture depicting a child
•    Sexual abuse of a child
•    Aggravated sexual abuse of a child
•    Purchase of sexual services from a young person
•    Sexual grooming of a child

2. Sex offences
•    Rape
•    Aggravated rape
•    Coercion into sexual intercourse
•    Coercion into a sexual act
•    Sexual abuse
•    Sexual harassment
•    Abuse of a victim of prostitution
•    Pandering
•    Aggravated pandering
•    Unlawful marketing of obscene material

3. Violent offences
•    Manslaughter
•    Murder
•    Killing
•    Aggravated assault
•    Aggravated robbery

4. Offences against personal liberty
•    Trafficking in human beings
•    Aggravated trafficking in human beings

5. Narcotics offences
•    Narcotics offence
•    Aggravated narcotics offence
•    Unlawful use of narcotics
•    Preparation of a narcotics offence
•    Abetting a narcotics offence
•    Abetting an aggravated narcotics offence

The extract will also include information about any fines held in the fines register that have been sentenced for offences against children or sex offences, or similar offences sentenced in another European Union Member State. Finally, the extract will include information about any bans on working with or otherwise dealing with children that have been imposed in another European Union Member State.

If the individual is not guilty of any of the offences given above, their criminal records extract includes a note of this. So the extract of the criminal record will not show any information other than the offences listed above, even if there are other entries in the record.

This criminal history extract is valid for six months. It must present it to your employer, educational institution or authority within that time.

Length of time convictions kept on record
Judgments will be removed from a criminal record after 5, 10 or 20 years, or at the age of 90 (or upon death) if no recent convictions have been added.

5 years after the date when the judgment became final, all information is removed about:
• Conditional imprisonment
• Conditional imprisonment, plus fine (supplementary fine) community service or monitoring
• Juvenile penalty, or fine instead of a juvenile penalty
• Dismissal
• Corporate fine

10 years after the date when the judgment became final, all information is removed about:
• Unconditional imprisonment of up to two years
• Community service given instead of an unconditional sentence 20 years after the date when the judgment became final, all information is removed about:
• Unconditional imprisonment of more than two years and up to five years
• Punishment waived due to criminal irresponsibility

After a person’s death or at the age of 90, all information is removed about:
• Imprisonment of more than five years. If the criminal records still contain information about the person, all of the remaining information will be removed at this point.

Information on individual punishment is not removed if the criminal records contain information that cannot yet be removed on the grounds of the above rules being applicable to the decision.

If a person commits new offences before the previous entry in the criminal records has been removed, all of the information is kept until the write-off period of the most severe sentence has expired.
 

Est. turnaround time

10-15 working days


Supported in

Finland

Subject

Person

Requirements

Application form, Proof of identity

Data Sources

Ministry of Justice

Relevant Industries

Education / Teaching / Nursing