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DBS Offer Fast Track Checks for Healthcare and Social workers free-of-charge in COVID-19 Crisis
DBS Offer Free-of-charge Fast Track Checks for Healthcare and Social Workers in COVID-19 Crisis As of March 30th 2020, the Home Office and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) will enact temporary arrangements to provide DBS checks and fast-track...
Scammers Target Emergency NHS Volunteers Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Scammers Take Advantage of NHS Volunteers Amid COVID-19 Crisis The Coronavirus is affecting everyone globally. As a nation, we need to be kind, help others and follow the Government’s advice to ‘stay home’. NHS Volunteers DBS Checks ...
DBS Check Pricing Changes 2019 – All You Need to Know
2019 has been a year of change for the Disclosure and Barring Service. From removing the ability to amend missing or incorrect information in Enhanced DBS check applications (you can find more about the changes to Enhanced DBS Checks here), to putting procedures in...
What’s Changing for Enhanced DBS Check Applications?
From the 1st August 2019, changes to the Enhanced DBS Check application process will come into effect. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) announced these upcoming revisions on the gov.co.uk website, and it will impact both applicants and Registered Bodies....
Academic study condemns criminal record tick box
An academic study undertaken by Dr Beth Weaver at Strathclyde University has been released and found that the criminal record tick box on job applications does little to predict whether an individual could potentially re-offend. Speaking to the BBC news, Weaver...
Supreme Court rejects government appeal against minor convictions
The supreme court has rejected Home Office appeals over a criminal record scheme which has seen many people lose jobs because of past convictions they received as young offenders. The judges overruled the government scheme in favour of individuals who said their...
Taxi and private hire drivers to potentially face Enhanced DBS checks
Taxi drivers could potentially require an Enhanced criminal record check before they are granted a licence after new proposals were released last week. If the tender is approved, every council in the UK will be instructed to carry out DBS checks on all applicants...
Tory councillors resist proposals to enforce mandatory criminal record checks
Councillors have argued that recent proposals to make it mandatory for them to have a Basic criminal record check should be abolished as it is an unnecessary measure. Saima Afzal, councillor and chairman of Blackburn with Darwen council’s standards told The...
New domestic violence bill allows potential victims to discover if their partner has violent past
Potential domestic abuse victims will legally be able to check if their partner has a violent past after a campaign for a domestic violence bill was passed yesterday. Theresa May unveiled Clare’s Law- a landmark domestic abuse proposal following a campaign...
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