Question follow-through · 81524
Disclosure and Barring Service
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider the potential merits of requiring Disclosure and Barring Service checks to include civil offences where a safeguarding issue was involved.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider the potential merits of requiring Disclosure and Barring Service checks to include civil offences where a safeguarding issue was involved.
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2025
Answer published
The purpose of a criminal record check issued by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is to provide information to employers and others to help them judge the suitability of an individual for a particular role.On the highest level enhanced DBS checks,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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