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Workplace Pensions – Are you Ready? 19 Aug 2013 | 07:19 pm
It’s a fact that people are now living longer, therefore concerns that not enough people are saving for retirement is justified. In order to get more people saving into a pension scheme, the Gover...
Church DBS Checks Become ‘Utterly Ruthless’ 29 Jul 2013 | 07:18 pm
Any church volunteers deemed to have ‘substantial’ contact with children will now face DBS Checks. This includes, Sunday schools teachers, individuals running parent and toddler groups and possibly e...
‘Incredibly Low’ take-up of Scheme to Reveal History of Domestic Abusers 25 Jul 2013 | 02:55 pm
Police have made a fresh appeal to women worried about potentially violent partners to contact them and apply to look into the background of their partner. The scheme checks the prison, social service...
Paternity Leave Entitlements 15 Jul 2013 | 08:11 pm
As little as 1% of men use their ‘additional paternity leave’ entitlement according to a recent study. In 2011 the Government introduced additional paternity leave entitlements in order to provide UK...
Why Do Employers Conduct Background Checks? 15 Jul 2013 | 07:36 pm
With an ever increasing amount of employers carrying out background checks on their employees we ask is this purely because “it’s what everybody else is doing” or is it because there are genuine benef...
Recruiting Applicants from Overseas 15 Jul 2013 | 03:51 pm
When recruiting, employers can ask potential hires to obtain a Criminal Record Check, or ‘Certificate of Good Conduct’ from their country of origin. In some cases, it may also be possible for employe...
Important Changes to the DBS Checking Process 3 Jun 2013 | 08:50 pm
It’s important that we inform you of important future changes to the DBS checking process which will commence from 17th June 2013. The first change is a result of the Government’s aim to put individua...
Old and Minor Cautions, Convictions and Warnings Will be Filtered from DBS Certificates 31 May 2013 | 08:19 pm
Following on from our update in March, we can confirm the DBS are to filter certain old and minor cautions, convictions, reprimands and warnings from criminal record certificates. Changes to legislati...
New Draft Guidance for the Safeguarding of Children – Are You up to Date? 20 May 2013 | 06:36 pm
The Department for Education (DfE) has revised guidance called ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ It replaces three documents: The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Fami...
Our Lead Signatory Cycles the Coast to Coast 15 May 2013 | 03:25 pm
Our Operations Director and Lead Signatory for the DBS, Michelle Mellor recently completed the 140 mile Coast to Coast cycle route in 3 days! Starting at the Irish Sea on the 25th April she crossed so...
