About us
Who we are and what we do
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) delivers disclosure and barring functions on behalf of government. This includes DBS checks for England, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man, and barring functions for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. We carry out this work from bases in Darlington and Liverpool. DBS was created in 2012 under the provisions of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. We are a non-departmental public body (NDPB) accountable to Parliament through the Secretary of State for the Home Office. We provide an important service helping to safeguard and protect people in our society while ensuring proportionality and protecting the rights of individuals. We do this by providing relevant information, and where necessary, making barring decisions to help employers make safer recruitment decisions. DBS issues four levels of certificates of criminal records, known as DBS certificates, and we operate a system of updating certificates through our Update Service. We also bar individuals from working in certain circumstances. Our work is funded by the fees from our DBS check customers.
Purpose & Vision
Protecting the public by helping employers make safer recruitment decisions and by barring individuals who pose a risk to vulnerable groups from working and volunteering in certain roles.
Making Recruitment Safer. By being a visible, trusted and influential organisation, providing an outstanding quality of service to all our customers and partners. Where our people understand the important safeguarding contributions they make and feel proud to work here.
Our Values & Behaviours
We Work Together
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We collaborate, we actively listen, learn and share information with our colleagues throughout the DBS and with our external partners.
We respect and value everyone, and we recognise and appreciate each other’s efforts.
We are transparent, we communicate clearly, openly and with transparency in all our interactions at work.
We Act with Integrity
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We are accountable, we take responsibility for our actions and decisions and follow through on our promises. We make sure that we treat all our colleagues fairly.
We behave with professionalism, seeking to do the right thing.
We are customer-focused, we put the needs of our customers first in all of our actions at work, making sure that we deliver the best possible service for them.
We Pursue Excellence
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We challenge ourselves to be creative and explore new ways of working so that we can provide the best possible service to our customers.
We always seek to produce our best quality work, consistently and accurately.
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- Failed at: #assign locale = propsUtil.get(ucmLoc... [in template "64056#64102#365043" at line 5, column 1]
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1<div id="outer-footer" class="updatedFooter" style="padding-left: 0px; width: 1640px;">
2 <div id="inner-footer-expert" class="">
3
4<#assign ucmLocaleKey = themeDisplay.getLocale()+"."+siteType+"."+"ucmLocale">
5<#assign locale = propsUtil.get(ucmLocaleKey)/>
6<#assign apiUrl = propsUtil.get("WEB72_API_DOMAIN")/>
7
8<#assign lr74CutoverCountryCode = propsUtil.get("LR74_CUTOVER_COUNTRY_CODE")/>
9<#assign hays_logo = propsUtil.get("HAYS_LOGO")/>
10
11<#if lr74CutoverCountryCode??>
12<#list lr74CutoverCountryCode?split(",") as countryCode>
13 <#if countryCode = themeDisplay.getLocale()?keep_after_last("_") >
14 <#assign apiUrl = propsUtil.get("API_DOMAIN")/>
15 </#if>
16</#list>
17</#if>
18
19<#attempt>
20
21<#if httpUtil.URLtoString(apiUrl+"/o/HaysContentStructure/getcontentstructure/expertFooter/"+locale)??>
22<#assign response = httpUtil.URLtoString(apiUrl+"/o/HaysContentStructure/getcontentstructure/expertFooter/"+locale)>
23<#assign responseObj = jsonFactoryUtil.createJSONObject(response)>
24<#if responseObj?? && responseObj.results?? && responseObj.results?has_content>
25<#assign getResponseResultArray = responseObj.getJSONArray("results")>
26<div id="footer-bottom">
27 <#if getResponseResultArray.length() gt 0>
28 <#assign siteUrl = getResponseResultArray.get(0).siteUrl>
29
30 <#if getResponseResultArray.get(0).getJSONArray("GroupHeading")?? && getResponseResultArray.get(0).getJSONArray("GroupHeading").length()?? && getResponseResultArray.get(0).getJSONArray("GroupHeading").length() gt 1>
31
32 <#assign groupHeadingArr = getResponseResultArray.get(0).getJSONArray("GroupHeading")>
33 <div class="row single-col gpHeading">
34 <div class="col col-12">
35 <nav>
36 <ul>
37 <#list 0 ..< groupHeadingArr.length()?number as i>
38 <#if groupHeadingArr.get(i).Link?starts_with("/")>
39 <#assign linkUrl = siteUrl + groupHeadingArr.get(i).Link>
40 <li>
41 <a href="${linkUrl}" target="">${groupHeadingArr.get(i).GroupHeading}</a>
42 </li>
43 <#else>
44 <li>
45 <a href="${groupHeadingArr.get(i).Link}" target="">${groupHeadingArr.get(i).GroupHeading}</a>
46 </li>
47 </#if>
48 </#list>
49 </ul>
50 </nav>
51 </div>
52 </div>
53 <#elseif getResponseResultArray.get(0).getJSONArray("FooterLink")??>
54 <#assign FooterLinkArr = getResponseResultArray.get(0).getJSONArray("FooterLink")>
55 <div class="row single-col gpHeading">
56 <div class="col col-12">
57 <nav>
58 <ul>
59 <#list 0 ..< FooterLinkArr.length()?number as i>
60 <#assign linkUrl = FooterLinkArr.get(i).FooterLink?replace("href=\"/", "href=\""+siteUrl+"/" ) >
61 <li>
62 ${linkUrl}
63 </li>
64 </#list>
65 </ul>
66 </nav>
67 </div>
68 </div>
69
70 </#if>
71
72
73 <div class="footer-added">
74 <img src="${hays_logo}"></img>
75 <div class="copyright">
76 <p>
77 <p class="last">${getResponseResultArray.get(0).CopyrightHTML}</p>
78
79 </p>
80 </div>
81 </div>
82 </#if>
83</div>
84</#if>
85</#if>
86<#recover>
87
88</#attempt>
89
90
91 </div>
92</div>
93<script>
94window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
95 var consent = document.getElementById("teconsent");
96
97 // Find the <ul> inside the nav of gpHeading
98 var ulElement = document.querySelector(".gpHeading nav ul");
99
100 if (consent && ulElement) {
101 var liWrapper = document.createElement("li");
102 liWrapper.appendChild(consent);
103 ulElement.appendChild(liWrapper);
104 } else {
105 console.log("Consent element or target UL not found.");
106 }
107});
108
109$(document).ready(function(){
110 if((Liferay.ThemeDisplay.getLanguageId() != "en_GB") && (location.href.indexOf("/web/") != -1)) {
111 console.log("link update required on the site");
112 $('a').each(function(index) {
113 var layoutRelativeUrl = Liferay.ThemeDisplay.getLayoutRelativeURL();
114 var getSiteUrl = layoutRelativeUrl.substring(0, layoutRelativeUrl.lastIndexOf("/"));
115 var linkVal = $(this).attr("href");
116 if((typeof linkVal !== "undefined") && linkVal.indexOf("https") == -1 && linkVal.indexOf("/")!= -1 && (linkVal.indexOf("/") === linkVal.lastIndexOf("/"))){
117 var updatedLink = getSiteUrl + linkVal ;
118 $(this).attr("href", updatedLink)
119 console.log("link updated - " + updatedLink);
120 }
121 });
122 }
123});
124</script>