Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

I would like request complete information regarding assessment for the suitability of candidate with previous dismissal in similar job role

a civil servant dismissed for gross misconduct due breach of security information, not been added to cabinet office internal fraud database as no evidence of fraud and dishonesty found.

ex civil servant had been refused employment at pre employment check stage with DWP for similar job role, as job role requires regular to access records and customers information, so as per vacancy holder such candidate is not suitable for the role due to previous breach information incident treated as potential risk. Isn't it unfair and biased decision to judge suitability of candidate just because of previous information security breach misconduct.

As candidate is not on cabinet office internal fraud database, he is still eligible to join back civil service employment. But departments are failing and rejecting his pre employment check as previously dismissed for breach of security information, not considering the fact and relevant information for previous misconduct. Ignoring if department faced any kind of consequences due employee misconduct, ignoring impact of job refusal on candidate.

I would like to request detail response for following query

1. Explain when and how candidate with previous dismissal for information security breach to become suitable for same job role
2. what is criteria to decide that dismissed civil servant are unsuitable. What is criteria to assess the suitability of candidate with previous dismissal for breach of information security
3. Is the purpose of disciplinary action of dismissal to ban the candidate for lifetime to get back into employment for similar role

This information is not mentioned on job advert, need to know scope of dismissed civil servant to get back into civil service employment. Primarily purpose disciplinary action is to correct not to punish employees for life time and even convicted ones have right to get back into employment.

Yours faithfully,

Thank you

Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Pre-employment check - previous dismissal assessment of job suitability'.

As mentioned earlier candidate was dismissed due to breach of security information, not due to breach of Civil Service Code (Honesty, integrity, impartiality and Objectivity)

During misconduct investigation no evidence of dishonesty, theft, fraud or criminal intent found therefore candidate not been added on IFD

As per your response 'Those risks are balanced against the requirements of Standards of Behavior and the job role advertised, specifically in the scenario you describe the Standards of Behavior values of honesty and integrity. The criteria used include the reason for the dismissal and the nature of the specific job role that they have applied for'

DWP simply linked previous misconduct for new similar job role and rejected provisional offer, assumed him as risk due to previous behavior ignoring the impacts and mitigating factors

My primary query is please specify solution now, how and when such candidate will be become suitable for similar job role? how long such candidate will stay unsuitable and when he will become suitable for similar job role with DWP

look forward to it.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

Yours faithfully,

Mr Tarar