From 21 January 2026, self-employed people and personal employees can apply for Enhanced and Enhanced with Barred List(s) DBS checks through an ...

Guernsey driving instructors who put forward students for practical tests must have successfully completed an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check from next week. The safeguarding ...

A victim of Hornchurch choirmaster Thomas Rodgers has urged parents to make the most of new enhanced DBS checks available to private tutors ...

A victim of Hornchurch choirmaster Thomas Rodgers has urged parents to make the most of new enhanced DBS checks available to private tutors.

Councillors in a borough are to have mandatory criminal record checks after a former mayor pleaded guilty to child sex offences last month. Sefton Council voted in favour of members undertaking a ...

There was ‘shock’ among councillors as they learned enhanced DBS checks for members are not already enforced. Coun Dave Molyneux, leader of Wigan Council, told his peers that he “strongly believes” ...

The local government minister Simon Hoare has written to upper-tier and unitary authorities “urging” that councillors have their criminal records reviewed before sitting on education or social care ...

Co-director of Unlock, a UK charity for people with criminal records Co-director of Unlock, a UK charity for people with criminal records Of all the things in the press recently about Oxfam, comments ...