BASIC, STANDARD AND ENHANCED DBS CHECK
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The Disclosure and Barring Service?has released a report stating how many DBS checks they do monthly; on average they do 500 thousand checks monthly. This includes basic, standard and enhanced checks. Disclosure and Barring Service has also posted on their LinkedIn that some checks take longer than others to process, for example, an?Enhanced DBS check?takes around 10 days and a basic one just 1 day.
What is the difference between these types of checks and why is their processing time different? Read below to know more.
BASIC DBS CHECK
As the name suggests, a basic check is the least detailed type of disclosure. It’s also the only type of criminal records check which you can request on yourself. Anyone can pay for a basic DBS check at any time. A?basic DBS certificate?shows your current, unspent criminal record only. The idea of “spent” refers to rehabilitation law, which allows people to discount some?criminal offences?after a set period of time. The length of time will depend on how old the person was at the time of the offence. Very serious crimes are never spent, whereas very minor convictions or cautions as a teenager disappear off your record in as little as a year. There’s lots of information online to help you work out what’s current and what is “forgotten”.
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STANDARD DBS CHECK
Standard DBS checks can only be requested if you are applying for a job which requires it. The government draws up a list of the types of jobs which need checks, and it’s against the law for an employer to ask you for a disclosure if the job doesn’t require it. A standard DBS check is more detailed than the basic in that it will look into spent convictions as well as unspent ones. As most of the people asking for standard disclosures are going into jobs in the court system, financial services or other positions of responsibility, a long record from years ago may still be relevant. When preparing the certificate, the police go through a filtering process to look at the person’s criminal record and assess the type of information against the role they will be doing.
Read the full article here: Basic, Standard and Enhanced DBS Check