Guidance

Applicant's introduction to the decision-making process for enhanced criminal record checks

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

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Published: 14 November 2012
• Last updated: 25 March 2014
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  1. 25 March 2014

     Removed references to quality assurance framework (QAF)/stage 1 barring referrals. This is now withdrawn.

  2. 16 January 2014

     Updated to the latest version. Includes information about filtering on criminal record checks.

  3. 14 November 2012

     First published.

Documents

An applicant's introduction to the decision-making process for enhanced criminal record checks

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Guidance on how the police make the decision to include locally-held information on an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate.