This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Early Years Advisory Teacher, Karen Loft, for the attention of all Early Years and Childcare Practitioners.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks for childcare providers who register with Ofsted
This guidance sets out our position on Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks for childcare providers who register with Ofsted and those associated with them, such as people who live in a house where childcare takes place. It includes details about:
- when we will accept existing DBS checks obtained via another organisation
- retention of DBS checks
- when we require people who are already registered with or agreed suitable by Ofsted to repeat their DBS check
- whether we will let people start work before they have a DBS check
- our role in checking employers who use existing DBS checks
- DBS checks for agency workers
- DBS checks on children who reach 16 years of age and are living or working on domestic premises where childcare takes place – this applies to childminders and childcare on domestic premises registered on the Early Years Register and/or on the Childcare Register
- whether a student on placement or volunteer to domestic premises where childcare is taking place, has to have a new DBS check
Please follow this link for the full guidance: Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks for childcare providers who register with Ofsted - GOV.UK