DBS Checks
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) carries out criminal record checks for specific positions, professions, employment, offices, works and licences included in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Practices are able to obtain employees via the following organisations/services.
Avon Local Medical Committee
- Telephone: 0117 9702755
- 14a High Street, Staple Hill, Bristol, BS16 5HP
- Website: https://avonlmc.co.uk/dbs-application/
As an LLR practice you are entitled to belong to the LMC buying group, and they have a DBS checking service provided by our colleagues at Avon LMC: http://www.lmcbuyinggroups.co.uk/suppliers/profile/dbs-checks-processing-service
uCheck
- Telephone: 0843 1780818
- Email: info@ucheck.co.uk
- Registered address: First Floor, Chiltern House, Sigford Road, Marsh Barton, Exeter, Devon, EX2 8NL
- Website: https://www.ucheck.co.uk
uCheck offer a range of vetting and screening solutions to over 25,000 employers in the UK. This includes DVLA, Right to Work Checks, Adverse credit, ID checks, and the very important DBS criminal record check.
As the second largest Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) umbrella body in the country, uCheck screen more than 400,000 employees annually! As part of the MG Care Group of companies, they are ISO27001 accredited and a Nettitude partner, so you are guaranteed the highest level of quality and compliance.
Vetting and Barring
As part of the coalition agreement, the government committed to reviewing and reforming the vetting and barring scheme and criminal records regime, scaling them back to ‘common sense levels’.