Most people are familiar with “DBS Check.” Employers can use the Disclosure and Barring Service to check potential employees’ criminal records for cautions, warnings, and convictions.
It’s normal to be curious about what might appear for those who apply for jobs that require enhanced DBS. Let’s take a look at what might be in a report.
What does an Enhanced DBS check show?
An enhanced disclosure check provides full details about a person’s criminal history, including warnings, cautions, reprimands and spent convictions. To ensure that the applicant isn’t banned from working with any of these groups, the check searches the DBS Children’s Barred List and the DBS Adult First checks.
Any information about a person can be added by the local police to support their application.
The following information is available for each conviction:
Date of conviction
Court details
Offence details
Date of offense
Sentence
Police have the right to add any additional information to their files that they deem necessary to conduct the check.
Is There a Caution on Enhanced Disclosure?
We are frequently asked if cautions were not surfaced in an enhanced disclosure test. Basically, any cautions or convictions that have not been used will be displayed on all Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
Before 2013, the law changed, convictions and cautions would have been displayed on your enhanced DBS. Today, some types of cautions and convictions can be subject to filtering so they won’t show up on your enhanced disclosure. Some offences will still be visible. All other cautions will not appear on your DBS certificate. This is due to a number of factors.
