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DBS is marking Safeguarding Adults Week to highlight its critical role in helping keep vulnerable adults in the care sector safe.
DBS is helping summer activity providers, to keep children safe over the holidays
The Disclosure and Barring Service celebrates its landmark anniversary.
Join us to explore how we can work together to make recruitment and employment safer.
The Disclosure and Barring Service helps employers make safer recruitment decisions.
DBS prepares to host a free, virtual conference featuring a range of expert speakers sharing insights to support better safeguarding decision-making.
The Disclosure and Barring Service reflects upon some significant achievements in 2023.
We are seeking views on child safeguarding practice in schools and colleges to inform the Department for Education’s safeguarding in schools and colleges policy.
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.
Guidance for managing staff and employment issues.
Employers' responsibilities when using agencies to find staff, including health and safety, access to facilities, vacancies, continuous employment, transfer fees and complaints
How schools can get value for money, avoid fees and find local agencies who complete thorough background and safeguarding checks.
Information highlighting the importance and benefits, for employers (particularly those in employment sectors not classed as providing regulated activity) in obtaining a DBS basic check for their employees.
Guidance for adult social care providers to ethically and sustainably recruit care workers and senior care workers from overseas.
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