Corporate report

DBS annual quality account: 2025 to 2026

The DBS annual quality account provides an assessment of quality assurance activity within DBS, and the impact of this activity throughout 2025-26.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Published: 11 September 2026

Documents

DBS annual quality account: 2025 to 2026

MS Word Document, 20.6 MB

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email customerservices@dbs.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

DBS annual quality account: 2025 to 2026

HTML

Details

The annual quality account (AQA) draws together and examines quality intelligence from a range of quantitative and qualitative evidence. The report assesses the Disclosure and Barring Service’s (DBS) approach to quality through a safeguarding lens.

Published 11 September 2026