Guidance and regulation

You can use our online services to check the progress of basic, standard or enhanced checks or view your certificate.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 15 February 2018

DBS offers a number of online services, including the Update Service, DBS online accounts and online tracking.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 26 February 2019

Guidance to help you validate the identity of a DBS check applicant and a new lead/countersignatory.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 9 December 2022

• ID checking guidelines for standard/enhanced DBS check applications from 1 July 2021

  These guidelines come into effect from 1 July 2021, however the previous…

• Canllawiau gwiriadau adnabod ar gyfer ceisiadau gwiriadau DBS safonol/manylach o 1 Gorffennaf 2021

  Daw’r canllawiau hyn i rym o 1 Gorffennaf 2021, ond gellir defnyddio’r…

• ID checking guidelines for countersignatory applications

  Introduction This guidance will help you validate the identity of a…

• DBS digital identity verification guidance

  This is the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) digital identity (ID)…

• DBS digital identity factsheet

  Introduction The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) digital identity…

Guidance on basic DBS checks including how to apply, the cost and what information is disclosed on a basic certificate.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 6 April 2022

Information regarding a DBS online account and the services available to you as a barring or basic check customer.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 18 April 2019

Guidance for employers about DBS checks, including how to apply, registering with the DBS and the code of practice.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service and 1 others
• Updated: 13 July 2022

Guidance on finding work, claiming benefits, managing debts and pensions if you’re being made redundant.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 26 August 2021

Step by step guidance for applicants filling in the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application form.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 21 September 2018

A list of Responsible Organisations and their responsibilities.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 12 April 2023

A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals, and example scenarios.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 28 October 2023

A collection of guidance and policy documents relating to the submission of basic checks, for Responsible Organisations.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 1 October 2021

You can apply to Access to Work to get money for communication support at a job interview.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 28 May 2021

The DBS check application process for volunteers, for basic, standard and enhanced DBS checks.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 11 April 2022

Guidance leaflets relating to eligibility and other DBS services and products.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 1 November 2023

If you claim Jobseeker's Allowance, you must inform us if you or your partner do any type of paid or unpaid work.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 15 September 2023

DBS makes considered decisions about whether somebody should be barred from engaging in regulated activity.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 30 March 2023

These include information for young people and how to find work experience, apprenticeships, internships or jobs in the space sector.

• From: UK Space Agency
• Updated: 5 February 2024

Guidance, checklist and form for making a subject access request to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

• From: Disclosure and Barring Service
• Updated: 28 June 2021

Find out about the help for Universal Credit claimants aged 16 to 24 to find a job, work-related training or an apprenticeship though the Youth Offer.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 28 March 2024

Where to find work, who can help you and how to access skills based training for employment.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 13 September 2023