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Colin Thaw, SBC Training 10 June 2013

Colin Thaw, SBC Training 10 June 2013. CRB checks are now called DBS checks. A DBS check has no official expiry date. Employers providing care services for adults - eg in a care home - can use a service called DBS Adult First . . What’s new?.

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Colin Thaw, SBC Training 10 June 2013

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  1. Colin Thaw, SBC Training 10 June 2013

  2. CRB checks are now called DBS checks. A DBS check has no official expiry date. Employers providing care services for adults - eg in a care home - can use a service called DBS Adult First. What’s new? • Free, instant online checks of an individual's DBS certificate • Certificates only sent to the applicant • Services who request 100+ DBS certificates annually can set up as a Registered Body

  3. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It replaces the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA). What do DBS do?

  4. An employer must not apply for a check unless the job or role is eligible for one. They must tell the applicant why they’re being checked, and where they can get independent advice. How does the DBS affect you? There are 3 types of check. The employer or organisation running the check should provide the applicant with more information about the level of check required.

  5. Types of DBS Check Checks for eligible volunteers are free of charge.

  6. Current arrangements: Employers The basic steps for a DBS check: • Get the application form from DBS or your umbrella body. • Ask the candidate to fill in the application form. • Send the application form to your umbrella body or DBS (If your organisation is registered with DBS the countersignatory has to sign the form). • DBS will send you a certificate.

  7. Individuals Anyone who applies for their next criminal record check can choose to subscribe to our new Update Service for £13 per year*. This will allow them to keep their criminal record certificate up to date, so that they can take it with them from role to role, within the same workforce. New process (from 17 June 2013) Employers Can carry out free, instant online checks of an individual's certificate (with their consent), to check that it is up to date. Registered Bodies will no longer receive a copy of an individual's DBS certificate. Whilst this may cause you some concern this will allow individuals to challenge the information released, before it is seen by their current or prospective employer.

  8. DBS Adult First Check DBS Adult First is a service that can be used in cases where, exceptionally, and in accordance with the terms of DoH guidance, a person is permitted to start work with adults before a DBS Certificate has been obtained. This applies to adult services such as care homes, domiciliary care agencies and adult placement schemes where DBS Certificates are required by law.

  9. DBS Adult First cont. • only available to organisations who are eligible to access the DBS's Adult barred list • is not a substitute for a DBS Certificate • should be used only in exceptional circumstances • not appropriate where a person intends to work with both children and adults This will confirm, usually within 2 days, if the applicant: • can start work, as long as they’re supervised • should wait for the results of an enhanced check • The service costs an extra £6.

  10. The DBS certificate Security features Certificates have security features to prove they’re genuine: • a ‘crown seal’ watermark • a background design featuring the word ‘Disclosure’, • ink and paper that change colour when wet • Certificates printed by the DBS have these security features, but ones sent by email don’t. Once the check is completed, the DBS will send a certificate listing the results to the applicant (and the authorised person requesting the check, prior to 17 June 2013).

  11. Changes to CRB records From 29 May 2013, the DBS will be removing certain specified old and minor offences from criminal record certificates An adult conviction will be removed from a DBS criminal record certificate if: • 11 years have elapsed since the date of conviction; and • it is the person’s only offence, and • it did not result in a custodial sentence. An adult caution will be removed after 6 years have elapsed since the date of the caution.

  12. How does this affect your staff? In line with the changes, DBS have amended question e55on the application form for a criminal record check. Question e55 asks the applicant ‘have you ever been convicted of a criminal offence or received a caution, reprimand or warning?’ Applicants should now ignore this question and treat this question as if they were being asked ‘do you have any unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings?’

  13. Want more information? In person Alison Roberts Sector Manager: Health and Social Care SBC Training Ltd alison.roberts@sbc-training.co.uk 01743 454810 On the web www.gov.uk/dbs

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