Help please

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Hi can someone help me help this person please? I have no knowledge and wonder if someone else has it.

My friends DD was arrested at 13/14 and charged for threatening a group of random girls with a knife and stealing a phone. Her DD was charged and sent to a youth court and had a Y.O.T order for a year, guess it's like Probation for kids?. Her DD was bullied into doing it and vulnerable at the time the gang of girls that made her do it was also in trouble. She can't remember what this charge was? Maybe a threat to kill or something and robbery?.

Girl again was then bullied for dobbing the girls in and ran out the house with a knife and was arrested for possession of a bladed article yot order again for 6 weeks.

Now the DD is nearly 30 now and wants to go to university to study Midwifery. The question is though does she declare these as spent? Or would they have come off the record or stayed on. We don't want her doing it if it will be a waste of 3 years.
The family moved away after the last incident and was never in trouble again, had settled down now married with kids.

Thanks.

Hi OP, it would be worth her checking with the universities she's interested in or speaking directly with a local NHS Trust (many of them do open days for prospective new staff and students are usually very welcome. I would say if she's had 10-12 years without any criminal activity or involvement they would look favourably although obviously they are serious offences. She can also check out the Nursing and Midwifery Council guidance or speak to a RCN student rep about it. I do some recruitment as part of my role but not midwifery, I wouldn't automatically exclude an applicant for the vast majority of offences committed as children.

@yorkshirecountrylass Ah brilliant thank you. I will show her this. She was very very vulnerable due to abuse and bullied severely and you can imagine how this ended up with older girls. But thankfully now has her head screwed on and I think she'd make a brilliant midwife.

good luck to her OP.