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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…

Update following round 9 of negotiations on an enhanced Free Trade Agreement with Switzerland.

• Updated: 2 February 2026

Use form APSS202 to amend an existing notification to rely on an international Enhanced Lump Sum and Death Benefit Allowance.

Who can check your criminal record for a role, the application process and how to recognise a genuine certificate.

Referral form for genotyping analysis of hepatitis A virus infections. Project code: SHAVACU.

This guidance explains the different preference tiers under the DCTS, including benefits for each tier, criteria for moving between tiers and transition periods.

• Updated: 19 June 2023

Find out if you can claim enhanced structures and buildings allowance relief on qualifying expenditure on structures and buildings in a UK Freeport or Investment Zone special tax site.

• Updated: 4 July 2024

Find out if you can claim Enhanced R&D intensive support (NI ERIS) as a loss-making, small and medium enterprise (SME) based in Northern Ireland.

• Updated: 26 September 2025

This framework provides guidance to help commissioners and providers of health and social care deliver high quality, cost effective education, training.

• Updated: 11 November 2011

You can become a DVSA enhanced rider scheme trainer if you want to train fully qualified motorcyclists in the scheme