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<p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) process over 4 million checks every year
and operate to published service standards set out here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-business-plan-2018-2019"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-business-plan-2018-2019</a>
The Home Office, as the sponsoring Department for the DBS, monitors performance to
track attainment of these standards.</p><p>The Home Office has published statutory
guidance to assist chief officers of police to provide the correct information for
enhanced criminal record certificates. The guidance is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statutory-disclosure-guidance"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statutory-disclosure-guidance</a></p><p>The
DBS monitor and work closely with local police forces to minimise any delays to applications
being processed. All police force disclosure unit performance data is published in
line with DBS’ publication scheme. This can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-5-police-disclosure-unit-performance%20"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-5-police-disclosure-unit-performance
</a></p>
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