DBS Checks

Introduction to DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) - Formerly CRB Check

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions each year by processing and issuing DBS checks for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. DBS also maintains the Adults’ and Children’s Barred Lists, and makes considered decisions as to whether an individual should be included on one or both of these lists and barred from engaging in regulated activity. 

POVA (Protection of Vulnerable Adults) scheme is a register of professionals who have harmed vulnerable adults in their care. Your name will be checked against this register during the DBS check.

For more information on what DBS checks are, please see the UK Government web site.

Having obtained a fresh DBS, you may wish to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. 

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service allows:

• Applicants to keep their DBS certificates up to date

• Employers to check a DBS certificate

When you come to our offices to apply for your DBS, we need at least three documents from you.   

You need to be able to produce:-

• • One document from Group 1, below

  • Two further documents from either Group 1, or Group 2a or 2b, below

At least one of the documents must show your current address.

List of Valid Identity Documents

We also need to supply an up to date photograph (in digital format) - If you have one you would like us to use, please either email it to us ahead of the meeting, or bring it with you on a USB memory stick.

You must also supply a list of all UK addresses at which you have been resident for the last five years.