Question 1: Does the applicant for this DBS check carry out any of the below functions from their own home address? teaching, training, instruction, guidance, supervision, care or healthcare of or for children childminding, fostering or adoption of children If no, go to Question 2 . If yes, the applicant is eligible for a home-based position check. Place a cross (X) in the ‘Yes’ box in field x66 on the DBS application form. Question 2: Does the applicant for this DBS check work and live on the premises of a further education institution or 16-19 academy for children? If no, go to Question 3 . If yes, the applicant is eligible for a home-based position check. Place a cross (X) in the ‘Yes’ box in field x66 on the DBS application form. Question 3: Does the applicant for this DBS check work and live in any of the following specified places? an educational institution exclusively or mainly for the full-time provision of education to children an institution for the detention of children a children’s home, nursery school or children’s centre If no, go to Question 4 . If yes, the applicant is eligible for a home-based position check. Place a cross (X) in the ‘Yes’ box in field x66 on the DBS application form. Question 4: Does the applicant for this DBS check live in the same household as another person who is being checked for any of the above reasons? If no, the applicant is not eligible for a home-based position check. Place a cross (X) in the ‘No’ box in field x66 on the DBS application form. If yes, the applicant is eligible for a home-based position check. Place a cross (X) in the ‘Yes’ box in field x66 on the DBS application form.

Please note, there is no legislation that allows other members of the household of the applicant to have a DBS check. Question 1: Does the applicant for this DBS check carry out any of the functions below from their own home address? healthcare which is regulated activity personal care which is regulated activity social work which is regulated activity If no, the applicant is not eligible for a home-based position check. Place a cross (X) in the ‘No’ box in field x66 on the DBS application form. If yes, the applicant is eligible for a home-based position check. Place a cross (X) in the ‘Yes’ box in field x66 on the DBS application form.

Disclosure &
Barring Service

Guidance

Home-based positions flowchart for child and adult workforces (accessible/text only)

Updated 2 November 2021

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You can find out whether a person is eligible for an enhanced DBS check in our Child and Adult workforce Guidance on the DBS eligibility page.

To apply for a home-based position DBS check, the applicant:

must be eligible for an enhanced DBS check for work which is listed in the flow chart, and
must carry out some or all of their work with children or adults from the place where the applicant lives, or
live in the household of someone who is being, or has been, checked because they work with children and carry out some or all of their work from their own home