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You can use our online services to check the progress of basic, standard or enhanced checks or view your certificate.
Success Profiles are the recruitment framework used within the Civil Service.
The Civil Service recruits using Success Profiles. This means for each…
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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.
Guidance for employers about DBS checks, including how to apply, registering with the DBS and the code of practice.
Information regarding a DBS online account and the services available to you as a barring or basic check customer.
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.
A list of Responsible Organisations and their responsibilities
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.
Check what you need to do to employ teachers who are non-UK citizens.
Guidance about signing up for the Disability Confident scheme, and how it can help your business.
A collection of guidance and policy documents relating to the submission of basic checks, for Responsible Organisations.
Guidance for employers, employees and their representatives in dismissal and re-engagement scenarios.
The DBS check application process for volunteers, for basic, standard and enhanced DBS checks.
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.
DBS makes considered decisions about whether somebody should be barred from engaging in regulated activity.
Guidance, checklist and form for making a subject access request to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
How accredited initial teacher training (ITT) providers can recruit trainees who are not UK or Irish nationals.
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