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• Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition
• Advertise a job
• Apply for a child performance licence
• Apply for a sponsor licence
• Become a licensed chaperone for child performers
• Check a job applicant's right to work: use their share code
• Check if a document allows someone to work in the UK
• Check security staff have a licence to work
• Check someone's criminal record as an employer
• Checking a job applicant's right to work
• Checks employers can make on job applicants
• Child employment
• Child work permit (England and Wales)
• DBS Update Service
• Employ someone: step by step
• Employers' liability insurance
• Employers' responsibilities: equality monitoring
• Employers: preventing discrimination
• Employing an apprentice
• Employing people who are carers: advice and training
• Employing staff for the first time
• Employment rights and pay for interns
• Find a DBS umbrella body company
• Find an assessor for your apprentice
• Find out which DBS check is right for your employee
• Get help and support for your business
• Get your business ready to employ staff: step by step
• Jobcentre Plus help for recruiters
• National Minimum Wage and Living Wage: accommodation
• Offer work to people who have come to the UK from Ukraine
• Penalties for employing illegal workers
• Reasonable adjustments for workers with disabilities or health conditions
• Record keeping for employment agencies and businesses
• Recruitment and disabled people
• Report someone as unfit to work with children or vulnerable adults
• The National Minimum Wage and Living Wage
• UK visa sponsorship management system
• Use the Employer Checking Service
• Using a recruitment agency to find staff