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You can use our online services to check the progress of basic, standard or enhanced checks or view your certificate.
DBS offers a number of online services, including the Update Service, DBS online accounts and online tracking.
Guidance to help you validate the identity of a DBS check applicant and a new lead/countersignatory.
These guidelines come into effect from 1 July 2021, however the previous…
Daw’r canllawiau hyn i rym o 1 Gorffennaf 2021, ond gellir defnyddio’r…
Introduction This guidance will help you validate the identity of a…
This is the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) digital identity (ID)…
Introduction The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) digital identity…
Guidance for employers about DBS checks, including how to apply, registering with the DBS and the code of practice.
Guidance on finding work, claiming benefits, managing debts and pensions if you’re being made redundant.
Guidance for applicants on basic DBS checks, including the cost, how to share and view the result, and what information is disclosed on a basic DBS certificate.
Information regarding a DBS online account and the services available to you as a barring or basic check customer.
A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals, and example scenarios.
Step by step guidance for applicants filling in the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application form.
A list of Responsible Organisations and their responsibilities
Information on local Get Britain Working plans for strategic authorities, local authorities, Jobcentre Plus, Integrated Care Boards, and other local labour market stakeholders in England.
A collection of guidance and policy documents relating to the submission of basic checks, for Responsible Organisations.
You can apply to Access to Work to get money for communication support at a job interview.
Guidance leaflets relating to eligibility and other DBS services and products.
If you claim Jobseeker's Allowance, you must inform us if you or your partner do any type of paid or unpaid work.
DBS makes considered decisions about whether somebody should be barred from engaging in regulated activity.
The DBS check application process for volunteers, for basic, standard and enhanced DBS checks.
Find out about the help for Universal Credit claimants aged 16 to 24 to find a job, work-related training or an apprenticeship though the Youth Offer.
Guidance, checklist and form for making a subject access request to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
These include information for young people and how to find work experience, apprenticeships, internships or jobs in the space sector.
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