Are you looking for a DBS Check Teachers? Or are you a person who is responsible for recruiting teachers within a school environment such as teachers, teaching assistants, caretakers, office or catering staff. If so you are legally required to complete an enhanced DBS check to ensure they are suitable to be employed with children […]

Disclosure Barring Service Checks – Who / What Are They? Disclosure Barring Service checks are a non-departmental civil body of the home office of the United Kingdom. The DBS gives organizations the power to make safer business decisions by recognizing people who may be inappropriate for certain work, including working with children or vulnerable adults. […]

Volunteers are eligible for a free volunteer DBS check with just an administration fee to pay. Because of this all volunteer requests must be checked to ensure the position is a volunteer position. What is a Volunteer? A volunteer is anyone who performs any activity which involves spending time helping people and is: Not being […]

When does a DBS check expire? A DBS check has no official expiration date.  due to the nature of a DBS check a DBS check expire date would be useless.  Any information included will be accurate at the time the check was carried out. It is up to an employer to decide if and when […]

We won’t provide this to the applicant as without the accompanying certificate, it won’t give prospective employers any useful information that will help them assess a candidate’s suitability for employment.

Following on from our previous post, the Disclosure and Barring service will be upgrading their IT systems. More information has now been made available and how they will affect the key areas of the DBS. Application Forms Application forms can still be sent in by paper. However, they will take a few extra days to […]

The need to complete a DBS check report on potential new personnel is becoming increasingly more common amongst employers, especially those that care for children, the elderly or vulnerable adults and legal and financial firms dealing with highly private documents. If your business, charity or voluntary organisation requires DBS check reports on new staff then […]

A well-known cycling coach in Norfolk and Suffolk has been found guilty of stalking Mark Elmy denied the charge at Great Yarmouth Magistrates’ court, claiming he was worried about the victim’s health and not infatuated or obsessed. The trial heard the pair had a sexual relationship, which the woman described as “one moment of madness”. […]

Campaigners have succeeded in their fight against the Disclosure and Barring Services check system, after challenging the law at the Court of Appeal. Civil rights campaigners have claimed that the law is wrecking people’s lives and is a breach of human rights. This is in reaction to a man in Manchester being forced to admit […]

Owners of a nursery school have installed a CCTV system so worried parents can check their children are happy while they are at work. The day nursery based in Holland-on-Sea, Essex, gives parents a login address and password that they can access from a computer, smartphone or tablet so they can view their children’s room […]