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The Disclosure and Barring Service helps employers make safer recruitment decisions. DBS is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office .
What Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks you need to have in place and how Ofsted will check the use of the DBS checks and certificates on inspection.
The DBS 'Making Recruitment Safer' campaign promotes the support available from our Regional Outreach service.
The campaign aims to promote the support that DBS can provide to employers.
Guidance for employers about DBS checks, including how to apply, registering with the DBS and the code of practice.
This guidance explains what providers of children’s homes must do under the law when recruiting and employing staff.
The Government Recruitment Service (GRS) was launched in September 2017 and is part of Civil Service HR in the Cabinet Office. As an ‘in-house’ provider, GRS works to meet recruitment needs across government. We deliver around 70 per cent of...
Guidance for procuring and deploying AI responsibly in the HR and recruitment sector.
How FE providers can hire teachers who are not UK or Irish nationals.
Avoiding discrimination against disabled people in recruitment – advertising the job, encouraging applications, reasonable adjustments
The Disclosure and Barring Service reflects upon some significant achievements in 2023.
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
As part of National Safeguarding Week in Wales, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is providing its expertise to support organisations make safer recruitment decisions.
Sets out the principles and best practice benchmarks health and social care employers and recruitment agencies must follow to ensure effective, ethical international recruitment.
To coincide with the launch of the Home Office Stop! Think Fraud campaign, the Disclosure & Barring Service is providing support to job seekers for a safer employment search.
Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
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