Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS) is a registered umbrella body for the Disclosure and Barring Service and working together with Voluntary Centre Services, we can support you in getting DBS checks wherever you live in Lincolnshire.

DBS stands for Disclosure and Barring Service. This was formally known as CRB (Criminal Records Bureau), and enables employers to review your criminal record as a means of assessing your suitability for employment, particularly in roles that involve working with children or vulnerable adults.

This check helps employers make informed decisions about whether you are an appropriate candidate for the position.

There are two types of DBS checks available being:

Standard DBS

This is a comprehensive examination of your criminal history that will show information regarding all previous and current convictions, cautions, reprimands, and final warnings stored in central police records. The only exceptions to this are protected convictions and cautions.

Enhanced DBS

This type of check involves reviewing both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands, and final warnings from central police records (excluding protected convictions and cautions), as well as relevant information from local police records that is deemed reasonably necessary for the job in question.

You can find out more about the Disclosure and Barring Service by following this link to the Government website.

Before an organisation approaches an individual for a DBS check, they are legally responsible for ensuring that they are entitled to ask that person to reveal their conviction history – whether they have any unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings.

Organisations must therefore carry out an assessment to identify if the role should be subject to a DBS check. This assessment should make sure that the role meets the requirements for a standard or enhanced DBS check and if the role is defined as regulated activity.

Guidance on how to identify if a DBS check is required can be found by following this link to the DBS page on the Government website or by contacting your local LCVS or VCS office.

You can also check whether a role is eligible for a DBS check by following this link to the interactive eligibility tool on the DBS page of the Government website.

Further guidance on DBS checks for volunteers can also be found by following this link to the NCVO website.

Depending on whether you are a voluntary and charitable organisation or if you are any other type of organisation, the price will vary on what you will pay for a standard or enhanced DBS check.

Our tables below will help you to find out the cost of a DBS check, but if you are unsure then please get in contact with any of our offices who will be glad to help.

All prices shown are subject to periodic review.

NOTES:

*Admin fee scale

1. Contracted organisation rate £10.00 each.
2. DBS check at one of our scheduled drop-in venues £13.50 each.
3. DBS check at the client’s location £15.00 (mileage charges may also apply)

Also there is a 10% discount for more than 15 DBS checks per year for contracted organisations.

If you need any further information on our Disclosure and Barring Service please get in touch with the office associated within the sub-district you are located in. Click on a hotspot for your local office information.