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<p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is a fee funded Arm’s Length Body that
provides disclosure certificates and barring functions: which help employers make
safer recruitment decisions in England and Wales and prevents unsuitable people from
working with vulnerable groups and children. It does this by issuing three levels
of criminal records certificate, known as disclosure checks, and can bar individuals
from working in regulated activity - certain roles that involve working with vulnerable
groups and children.</p><p>A link to the DBS’s datasets showing statistics against
performance standards including the time taken to process disclosure certificates,
from April 2015 to March 2020, is shown below:</p><p><a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fdbs-dataset-1-disclosure-progress-information-disclosed-and-update-service-subscriptions&data=02%7C01%7CEdward.Quigley1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cd72f3bbee2b6447aad0f08d80d216712%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637273784412911495&sdata=TByAtOSTlRA8byCZiD%2FUejy89zGttUSVM%2FEftLAiCbs%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-1-disclosure-progress-information-disclosed-and-update-service-subscriptions</a></p>
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