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How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.

• Updated: 22 December 2020

How to request a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for a potential employee: types of DBS check, how to request a check, how much it costs, how long it takes.

• Checks you can make on someone's record

  Employers can check the criminal record of someone applying for a role.…

• Get a basic DBS check for an employee

  You can request a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check on behalf of…

• Get a standard or enhanced DBS check for an employee

  How you request a standard or enhanced check depends on how many checks…

Acting as an attorney - duties, including finding an enduring power of attorney, registering an EPA, starting to act, making gifts and stopping being an attorney

• Overview

  You can help make or make decisions about someone’s property and money if…

• Register an enduring power of attorney

  You must register the enduring power of attorney (EPA) as soon as the…

• Check an enduring power is legal

  You can only use an enduring power of attorney (EPA) if it was made…

• When there's more than one attorney

  Check the enduring power of attorney (EPA) form to find out how many…

• Your duties

  You’re responsible for helping the donor to make decisions for things like…

• Payment and expenses

  Unless you’re a professional attorney, you will not normally be paid for…

• Stop acting as an attorney

  You’ll stop acting as the donor’s attorney if: the donor dies - the…

Employers might monitor workers, but if the monitoring involves taking data, images or drug testing they have to do this in a way that's legal and fair

The Disclosure and Barring Service has developed a multiple status check facility for employers.

• Updated: 2 December 2024

A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.

• Updated: 29 October 2021

Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol.

FCDO travel advice for Saudi Arabia. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 1 April 2026

Find out about buying a home through shared ownership. Read about who can apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares and repairing and selling your home.