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<p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Adult First is a service provided by the
Disclosure and Barring Service that can be used in cases where, exceptionally, and
in accordance with the terms of Department of Health guidance, a person is permitted
to start work with adults before a DBS Certificate has been obtained.</p><p>An individual
neither passes nor fails an Adult First check and a certificate is not withheld if
a person is on the Adults barred list. If a person is on the list, that fact will
be disclosed on the completed DBS certificate.</p><p>There are two outcomes to an
Adult First check and the Registered Body is either advised that no match exists for
this person on the current Adults barred list, or they must wait for the full disclosure
as a match against the Adults barred list cannot be ruled out at this stage. Further
investigation is then carried out through the normal disclosure checking process and
if a match against the Adults barred list is confirmed, it will be disclosed on the
certificate.</p><p>The table below shows the number of requests that were made for
DBS Adult First checks, the average time taken to complete Adult First checks and
the number of times the Registered Body received a ‘wait for the full disclosure’
or ‘no match found’ response between December 2012 and November 2015.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number
of Adult First Requests</p></td><td><p>Average Number of Days to Conduct Adult First
Check</p></td><td><p>Number of “No Match Found” responses</p></td><td><p>Number of
“wait for full Disclosure” responses</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-12 to Mar-13</p></td><td><p>50,175</p></td><td><p>1.07</p></td><td><p>39,200</p></td><td><p>10,975</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-13
to Mar-14</p></td><td><p>166,287</p></td><td><p>1.08</p></td><td><p>130,333</p></td><td><p>35,954</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-14
to Mar-15</p></td><td><p>173,503</p></td><td><p>1.19</p></td><td><p>135,792</p></td><td><p>37,711</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-15
to Nov-15</p></td><td><p>116,602</p></td><td><p>1.06</p></td><td><p>91,782</p></td><td><p>24,820</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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