Guidance and regulation

Employers guide to assessing fitness to work, including asking for medical evidence, fit notes, and dealing with long term or frequent absences.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 23 November 2022

Work out what your allowances are and if you need to pay tax on your pension savings if you flexibly access your pension.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 6 April 2023

Guidance about signing up for the Disability Confident scheme, and how it can help your business.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 25 November 2019

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

This guidance explains actions required if you are given a fit note (Statement of Fitness for Work) by an employee.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 6 October 2023

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

This document provides guidance on how to calculate holiday pay for workers whose hours and / or pay are not fixed.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 23 July 2020

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

This guidance helps healthcare professions make the best use of the fit note to support patients.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 6 October 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

Information for GPs and patients on how we collect and publish data about fit notes issued in England.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 12 October 2018

Use this collection of materials to help older people understand how they could get Pension Credit.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 22 April 2024

This factsheet provides extra information about Pension Credit.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 22 August 2019

Guidance on producing a 'Key information document', or key facts page, for agency workers.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 2 others
• Updated: 3 October 2019

Information for people who have been contracted-out of the state earnings related pension scheme (SERPS) or the state second pension (S2P).

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 12 August 2021

This publication provides guidance for businesses considering making offers of employment to people coming to the UK from Ukraine.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 4 others
• Updated: 19 February 2024

This page lists the locations and opening dates of temporary jobcentres.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 3 April 2024

The revised Acas Code on requests for flexible working provides statutory guidance to both employers and employees when dealing with flexible working requests.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 11 January 2024