Data on senior officials’ business expenses, hospitality, and meetings with external organisations.
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Data on senior officials’ business expenses, hospitality, and meetings with external organisations.
Guidance leaflets relating to eligibility and other DBS services and products.
Guides to help you identify the types of work eligible for an enhanced DBS check in each workforces, including regulated activity.
Guidance leaflets relating to eligibility and other DBS services and products.
Form to be printed and completed by barring customers that would like someone else to act on their behalf.
A list of Responsible Organisations and their responsibilities.
The Disclosure and Barring Service business plan 2024-25 focuses on our objectives for the next 12 months, in line with our five-year strategy.
Quarterly datasets showing statistics against internal performance standards. These apply to DBS checks, the Update Service, and disputes.
Information about the status of current and future procurement opportunities.
Quarterly dataset showing statistics against revised internal performance standards. These apply to barring cases and appeals against barring decisions.
DBS prepares to host a free, virtual conference featuring a range of expert speakers sharing insights to support better safeguarding decision-making.
A summary of the Freedom of Information (FOI) requests received by DBS.
DBS' Contact Centre will be closed over the bank holiday weekend and will be resuming with revised opening hours from Tuesday 2 April.
A report detailing the Disclosure and Barring Service's pay gap data for 2023.
Dr Gillian Fairfield, Chair of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has been reappointed for a third term of 2 years.
To coincide with the launch of the Home Office Stop! Think Fraud campaign, the Disclosure & Barring Service is providing support to job seekers for a safer employment search.
To coincide with the launch of the Home Office Stop! Think Fraud campaign, the Disclosure & Barring Service is providing support to job seekers for a safer employment search.
Data on senior officials’ business expenses, hospitality, and meetings with external organisations.
This statutory guidance is designed to assist chief officers of police to provide the correct information for enhanced criminal record certificates.
Quarterly dataset showing statistics against revised internal performance standards. These apply to barring cases and appeals against barring decisions.
Quarterly datasets showing statistics against internal performance standards. These apply to DBS checks, the Update Service, and disputes.
Information around our Partnership and Engagement team and Regional Outreach service.
A summary of the Freedom of Information (FOI) requests received by DBS.
The DBS annual quality account provides an assessment of quality assurance activity within DBS, and the impact of this activity throughout 2022-23.
Register of interests for the board members of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
DBS' Contact Centre will operate under reduced hours over the Christmas and New Year period.
The Disclosure and Barring Service reflects upon some significant achievements in 2023.
These framework documents replace the DBS Board Constitution.
Using the e-bulk system for making multiple applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service, including how to register.
These framework documents replace the DBS Board Constitution.
DBS is marking Safeguarding Adults Week to highlight its critical role in helping keep vulnerable adults in the care sector safe.
DBS is marking Safeguarding Adults Week to highlight its critical role in helping keep vulnerable adults in the care sector safe.
Fel rhan o Wythnos Genedlaethol Diogelu yng Nghymru, mae’r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd (DBS) yn darparu ei arbenigedd i gefnogi sefydliadau i wneud penderfyniadau recriwtio mwy diogel.
As part of National Safeguarding Week in Wales, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is providing its expertise to support organisations make safer recruitment decisions.
Information highlighting the importance and benefits, for employers (particularly those in employment sectors not classed as providing regulated activity) in obtaining a DBS basic check for their employees.
Information highlighting the importance and benefits, for employers (particularly those in employment sectors not classed as providing regulated activity) in obtaining a DBS basic check for their employees.
Version 9 of the quality assurance framework (QAF) came into force on 17 June 2013.
Guidance leaflets relating to eligibility and other DBS services and products.
A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals applied to checks processed until 27 October 2023, and example scenarios.
Changes to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 implemented by DBS.
Filtering rules for certain cautions and convictions that can be removed from a DBS certificate.
Filtering identifies and removes protected convictions and cautions so that they are not disclosed on a DBS certificate.
A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals, and example scenarios.
Changes to the filtering rules that came in to force on October 28 2023, the following page explains the potential impact on DBS customers
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