From the government website:
The rules as to when a conviction or caution will be filtered are set out in legislation. This states that a certificate must include the following:
- cautions relating to an offence from a list agreed by Parliament (see below)
- cautions given less than 6 years ago (where individual 18 or over at the time of caution)
- cautions given less than 2 years ago (where individual under 18 at the time of caution)
- convictions relating to an offence from a prescribed list (see below)
- where the individual has more than one conviction offence all convictions will be included on the certificate (no conviction will be filtered)
- convictions that resulted in a custodial sentence (regardless of whether served)
- convictions which did not result in a custodial sentence, given less than 11 years ago (where individual 18 or over at the time of conviction)
- convictions which did not result in a custodial sentence, given less than 5.5 years ago (where individual under 18 at the time of conviction)
Assault occasioning ABH will never be filtered from a DBS check so even if it's spent it will still show.
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...l-record-check Therefore whilst you have no obligation to tell your potential employer about a spent conviction as the ABH isn't filtered they will see it even on a basic disclosure.
Also from the government website:
For those 18 or over at the time of the offence
An adult conviction will be removed from a DBS certificate if:
- 11 years have elapsed since the date of conviction; and
- it is the person’s only offence, and
- it did not result in a custodial sentence
Even then, it will only be removed if it does not appear on the
list of offences which will never be filtered from a certificate. If a person has more than one offence, then details of all their convictions will always be included.
If you were under 18 at the time then the removal time would be 5.5 years as long as you don't have more than one conviction.
Not sure if that's what you wanted to hear unfortunately.