DBS Checks

Basic DBS Check (CRB Check)

This is the lowest disclosure screening possible. This can be used to provide confirmation of a persons previous unspent criminal convictions and cautions or lack of.

Standard DBS Check

The Standard Disclosure Check does everything that a Basic Disclosure Check does but they also include spent convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings.

Typically speaking lawyers and accountants undergo a Standard Disclosure Check due to the high responsibility of their roles and to prove that the individual has had no previous offences, including industry sensitive matters such as fraud.

Enhanced DBS Check

An Enhanced Disclosure Check provides the same level of detail as a Standard Disclosure Check, but it does have differences.

They contain relevant information from local police and can be used to request a barred list check (if the applicant is eligible). To be eligible, the position the applicant is applying for must involve regulated activity with children and/or vulnerable adults.

Barred list checks are designed to ensure that no one on either the children’s or adults’ barred lists will work on a regular basis with children under 18 or vulnerable adults.

Individuals on these lists have either been convicted for a relevant offence involving children or vulnerable adults, or they have caused harm – or shown a risk of harm – to children or vulnerable adults at a previous job, or during a volunteering role.

Roles in education and healthcare will require an Enhanced DBS Check and roles in leisure, transport and at places of worship may also require this check.