We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
DBS barring referral form to be used when referring a person to DBS. Guidance and additional information sheet included.
Guidance for people of State Pension age living outside the UK who have been asked to return a Life Certificate.
Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - training, work trials, starting your own business, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support
Career breaks - eligibility and notice periods, contract terms and conditions.
For additional information you cannot fit on your Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application form.
Employers' responsibilities for different contract types: full-time, part-time, fixed term, agency workers, consultants, zero hours, family members, volunteers and young workers
Your rights to request time off for training or study while in a job
Check if you’re paying a worker the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if you owe them payments for the previous year.
How employers must handle written and verbal staff resignations, business transfers and redundancy pay
Appeal a mistake on a criminal record check certificate or appeal a decision on DBS's list of people who are barred from certain roles
Discrimination policy and equal opportunities in recruitment and in the workplace - age discrimination, disabled workers, gender reassignment, sex discrimination
Information and advice about discrimination and human rights issues
As an agency worker, you have certain rights when using temp, recruitment agencies or employment agencies to find work - pay, holidays, equal treatment, fees.
Use form SSP2 if you're an employer and need to record details of an employee's sickness absences for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).
Update your payroll records when an employee reaches State Pension age so they stop paying National Insurance
Taking time off work for public duties (for example as a magistrate, school governor or on jury service) - rights and responsibilities for employees and employers
How to make debt deductions from an employee's pay because of an 'attachment of earnings order' (AEO) from a court. Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.
Reporting a person who cannot work with children or vulnerable adults
Compensation Recovery Unit forms for use by compensators (eg insurers) and their representatives (eg solicitors).
An employer can suspend an employee from work if their health and safety is in danger - employee right to pay, alternative work and how to handle problems
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).