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From Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
  • This privacy notice covers personal data collected during the recruitment, security clearance and on-boarding process.

  • This factsheet provides a brief overview of manual DBS certificates, and how they differ from automated certificates.

  • Guidance on how the police make the decision to include locally-held information on an enhanced DBS certificate.

  • Definitions and full lists of professional and competent bodies.

  • This statutory guidance is designed to assist chief officers of police to provide the correct information for enhanced criminal record certificates.

  • In certain circumstances you have a right to have personal data held about you erased. This is known as the right to erasure.

  • Guidance notes on how to complete the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) countersignatory application form.

  • These documents inform organisations of the technical specifications for e-bulk logical business messages.

  • Information for employers on the recruitment of ex-offenders.

  • The Disclosure and Barring Service has developed a multiple status check facility for employers.

  • The barring decision-making process at DBS, including information about barring appeals and reviews.

  • A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals applied to checks processed until 27 October 2023, and example scenarios.

  • This list outlines the most recent common errors made on the DBS application form and what you should do to avoid them.

  • Information about accessibility of the Disclosure and Barring Service's services and documents.

  • A video showing what information we need as part of a barring referral and why this is important.

  • How to make representations to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) when you are being considered for barring.

  • The process for making representations to the Chief Officer, regarding information that may be released on a DBS certificate.

  • 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.

  • A collection of guidance and case studies to help you decide whether an applicant can apply for a home-based position DBS check.

  • Guidance notes on how to register your organisation with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and nominate a lead countersignatory.