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皇冠体育app Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is marking to spotlight the vital role it plays to help keep vulnerable adults in the care sector safe.聽

Led by the , Safeguarding Adults Week aims to highlight safeguarding sector key issues, facilitate conversations and to raise awareness of safeguarding best practice.聽

DBS supports employers across the adult care sector to make safer recruitment decisions by processing and issuing criminal record checks and by maintaining the Barred Lists (records of people not permitted to work in regulated activity with vulnerable groups).聽聽In October 2023 alone, DBS issued almost 40,000 Enhanced DBS checks for the adult care sector.聽

Throughout Safeguarding Adults Week, DBS is focusing on signposting employers across the care sector to support and information clarifying legal requirements around the level of DBS checks required, as well as information around legal duty to refer where there might be a suspected safeguarding breach.聽

顿叠厂鈥� Regional Outreach Service is聽providing聽a range of activities and information, including workshops and webinars that better explain and inform, particularly around the Enhanced DBS check process that might be required in a health and social care role.聽

Key pointers around Enhanced DBS checks include the following:聽

• 皇冠体育app employer must submit this on the employee鈥檚 behalf, and all details must be correct and up to date to avoid any delays.聽
• Enhanced DBS checks will disclose the same information as a Standard check but can also include non-conviction information that the police believe is relevant.聽
• Enhanced DBS checks go through five stages to ensure that employers are making safer recruitment decisions.聽

Once the application is checked against the Child and/or Adult Barred Lists, the application is sent for a 鈥榬ecords held by the police search鈥�. 皇冠体育app police will add on any information they deem relevant to the position stated on the application.聽

) and DBS work diligently together to ensure that such checks are processed thoroughly and efficiently to ensure safeguarding remains a top priority in recruitment across the sector.聽聽聽

Eric Robinson, Chief Executive for the Disclosure and Barring Service, said:聽

鈥淒BS is proud of its track record in聽helping organisations across the care sector make safer employment decisions and we are supportive of awareness-raising initiatives like Safeguarding Adults Week.聽

聽鈥淪afeguarding really is everybody鈥檚 business, and we all know how important it is to improve knowledge and share information around how to protect society鈥檚 most vulnerable and keep them from harm.鈥�