Thomas Griffiths

Better to have it ready as soon as possible but it is not required at the time of initial application.

Hello From what you have written you were never sentenced to prison nor were you given a suspended sentence. A suspended sentence is a prison term but it is 'suspended' ie you don't have to actually go to prison unless you commit another offence in a certain timeframe (think of it as a 'last chance' they give you). Based on your information, you should pass the character test.

Hello Sarah You don't need to put the exact day down, we often put just the month/year for those types of things. As someone else suggested you could look at academic calendars etc for the general start/finish dates. Graduation certificates and similar often have completion dates which you can use. You could also look to past bank statements and see when you got the last payment of salary/wages and estimate within 2 weeks, or look at tax documents.