Reed want to see my husband's bank statements 😩

[Weepingwillowtree]

Desperate to get back into the workplace after 10 years out being a SAHM. Plucked up the courage to go for a Reed interview for a teaching assistant job (no qualifications required even though I have a BSc). Was told I had too much of a gap in my CV and they would need to see my husbands bank statements to “prove that I had been supported by him during this time”. I feel this is a total invasion of our privacy, what has my husbands finances got to do with whether or not I am capability of being a teaching assistant?? Am I being completely unreasonable refusing to provide this? They said they can’t give me a job unless I show his bank statements 😩

What year is it? I’d be livid how dare they

Probably to make sure you weren't in prison. Also, how could your DH's bank statement show that he was supporting you? But also, they'd do a police check anyway for a job like that.

I wouldn't touch any agency with a barge poll!
Exploitation at it's best.
The bank statement malarkey is discriminatory. How about a letter from your GP to verify circumstances?
You say you have a BSc?

Please consider a PGCE or similar..
Good luck

How would someone else's bank statements prove a person hadn't been in prison . I think that might just show up on an enhanced DBS though.

I was once told to get a job I would need to modify my hair.

That was Reed Employment in Kingston, Surrey.

I just went somewhere else!

@DagenhamRoundhouse How does her husbands bank accounts show that the op hasn’t been to prison.

I can’t believe people post guff like that and actually believe what they say.

@SherbrookeFosterer

I was once told to get a job I would need to modify my hair.

That was Reed Employment in Kingston, Surrey.

I went to them and said Id like a part time job and the woman said and I quote "wouldnt we all" I just left. I felt pretty worthless.

Not ok.

Firstly you don’t have the right to share that information and crucially they aren’t in an agreement with him re storage.

A signed declaration from him and your bank statements are sufficient.

Report them to the ICO.

This is ridiculous.
Who at Reed has requested this - their security vetting team? Or the agent themselves? Any data required by UKSV for the DBS check would need to be held securely by a SC cleared employee to be shared with UKSV and is subject to GDPR regs.
I don't see how your DHs bank statements prove anything though, ask them why they need them and get it in writing!

Oh this is just ridiculous. It's none of their business. Your DH isn't applying for a job with them.

There are lots of other agencies you can go to who won't demand your husbands bank statements! Have a scan about and try else where (The same jobs usually go through lots of agencies so you wont likely be missing out at all.)

This seems wrong on so many levels and they need calling out on it.
I wonder what their approach is towards people who do not have a husband/wife/partner.
This day and age, to be expected to provide details ofsomeone else's bank details (husband/wife/partner) before you can have the chance of a job is absurd, it's none of their business - it's almost Victorian.
I don't think you are being unreasonable, they are, and are well out of order. Try a different agency, or try schools directly.

@Weepingwillowtree

Is this position a paid role?

It seems strange. But I think this is to do with the gap in your CV. If you weren’t receiving state benefits (bar child benefit) there is nothing to prove you weren’t in Syria as an ISIS bride. Seriously, I know it sounds stupid but it’s a real thing for any gap greater than 3 months.

GDPR relates to having to have just cause to look at and hold certain information. OP should check their Candidate Privacy Statement . Sure it doesn’t say anything about checking your family members bank statements! OP should speak to Branch manager or just check Local Authority website for vacancies.

Vgbeat

It will be because you want to work in education. When you apply to work in a school you cannot have any unaccounted gaps so it would make sense to ask to prove to show you weren't up to anything nefarious

That is absolute rubbish.

Dd works in education in exactly the type of role whistling is going for.

She works very ad hoc work sometimes 4 or 5 employers per weekend.

People don’t always work 9-5 for one employer for a few years then move jobs to another employer. Some people work 2 or 3 jobs in a day then have a few days off then work for another completely different set of employers.
Yes there were a lot of stuff she had to get together in order to get an advanced DBS check. References from people who she had worked for babysitting or the children’s shoes shop she helps out from time to time. Or helping out in an ECA
She could have had 1000 employers over the last 3 years snd had lots of gaps in her CV as she has never worked 5 consecutive days.

Especially in the beginning. She had more time off than in work the first couple of years.

No one ever asked her how she supported herself or asked her for my bank statements.
I wouldn’t give her them even if she had asked. I value my financial security too much.

Have you made use of your tax allowance as married couples can do this? If you can evidence that then surely that is sufficient?

I would check on the legality of that, myself.

@OhWhyNot

I work with vulnerable people

To me a fill back ground check by the trust I work for NHS department did not ring alarm bells I fail to see why it should (I handed my bank statements in I’m single so can’t hand in a partners)

Everyday my alarms bells ring at work that given the area I work in that is what would be expected

You are talking Shite, many of us work with vulnerable people through the NHS and not once in all the years I have worked have I ever had to provide Bank Statements, even when I took a substantial amount of time off!

@31flavours

It seems strange. But I think this is to do with the gap in your CV. If you weren’t receiving state benefits (bar child benefit) there is nothing to prove you weren’t in Syria as an ISIS bride. Seriously, I know it sounds stupid but it’s a real thing for any gap greater than 3 months.

So how does a DH's bank statement prove this - maybe you could explain as the whole thread is wondering this.

Outrageous request.
Your finances, your business. I think I would be reporting this. And tbh if your DH has a healthy income you would get nowt on UC (married ladies do not get unemployment benefit as they are assessed as a couple) taxed as an individual though! Do a Bridget and tell them to bog off.

@LouiseBelchersBunnyEars

I’m just going to assume that their procedures require ‘a statement’ and someone’s completely misunderstood and thought it must mean ‘bank statement’

This seems like a plausible scenario 🧐

@MeadowsInSunshine

OP is required to submit own bank statements as standard compliance and verification.

But that in itself is nonsense. When you appoint a hospital consultant you don't need to see their bank statements, not for proof of ID, not for proof of address, not for proof of right to work and not for an enhanced DBS check. If the appointee chooses to give you a statement, that is an acceptable document to be included for some of those purposes, but it's not required.

I genuinely think most people on this thread who think this is fine have never undertaken recruitment checks.

People posted links to the actual requirements for supporting documentation, ie govt requirements, for DBS checks and Right to Work early on in this thread but posters are still posting rubbish because they're not bothering to read.

You're right. I'm surprised by the willingness of people to a. hand over sensitive documents without any requirement to do so and b. to speak with claimed authority when they don't understand recruitment documentation requirements.