These higher level checks do allow for spent convictions to be disclosed, but these (and those disclosed under the PVG Scheme) are subject to filtration by rules introduced in a 2015 Remedial Order (a convention compliance order using the urgent procedure) that ensured Scotland's disclosure regime complied with the European Convention on Human Rights.

This scheme provides higher level criminal record information to organisations working with children and vulnerable adults.

A signature characteristic is the fact that those joining the PVG Scheme are subject to ongoing monitoring of their criminal record and, should new information arise, the state may consider that person for barring.

Rather unusually for a delivery body, the organisation has a full Scottish Government policy team in-house, responsible for managing the recent Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 on its parliamentary journey.

That Act will revolutionise Disclosure in Scotland, increasing citizen freedoms and especially the ability to move on from a past criminal history but also simultaneously tightening the protection of vulnerable people from harm.