What is a DBS Check

What is a DBS Check?
https://www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check/overview

Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks are now called Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.

You may need to check someone’s criminal record if they apply:

• for certain jobs or voluntary work, for example working with children or in healthcare
• to foster or adopt a child

A DBS check has no official expiry date. Any information included will be accurate at the time the check was carried out. It is up to an employer to decide if and when a new check is needed.

January 2017.