CRIMINAL RECORD blunders are destroying careers, teachers warned today.

The National Education Union’s ATL section conference  heard that one woman had been told she could no longer work as a childminder because her nephew had been convicted of rape.

Another committed suicide after losing her job for failing to disclose that she had been fined for a public disorder offence — “snorting like a pig” at an undercover police officer — in her university days, Josie Whiteley, president of the ATL leadership section, told the conference.