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UK Disclosure and Barring Service: Filtering

August 05, 2013 posted by Steve Brownstein

The DBS will be removing certain specified old and minor offences from criminal record certificates issued from the 29 May 2013. Changes to the legislation were introduced to allow us to do this.

The filtering rules and the list of offences that will never be filtered are now available for you to view.
 
In line with these changes, we have amended question e55 on our DBS application form for a criminal record check.
 
To follow the law correctly, we need Registered Bodies to bring this change to the applicants’ attention when completing the DBS application form.

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 convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings which would not be filtered in line with current guidance?”

For more information about filtering, please see the DBS filtering guidance.

You can also call us on 0870 90 90 811.

Thank you for helping us to carry through this change.