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Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) workshops for Faith Groups

Provincial news Posted: 23 July 2025

The DBS Regional Outreach Service is running a series of workshops designed specifically for Faith Groups, aimed at enhancing understanding of its various components.

Details of the upcoming events are available below. If you would like to attend a workshop, please click the link for the date of the session you would like to attend.

DBS Overview Workshop

This 60 minute workshop will cover:

  • The role of the Disclosure and Barring service
  • Understanding DBS Checks and role eligibility, including levels of check and workforce
  • What ‘regulated activity’ is
  • An organisation’s duties and responsibilities in regard to referring to DBS
  • Understand the DBS barring process and the consequences of being placed on one or both Barred Lists

DBS Disclosure Workshop

This 90 minute workshop will cover:

  • The benefits of DBS and your organisation working together
  • The different levels of DBS check
  • Eligibility, and when an employee is eligible for a check
  • What ‘regulated activity’ is
  • What the DBS Update Service is, and its benefits
  • The safe recruitment practices that can be in place, with DBS checks forming a part of these

DBS Barring Workshop

This 90 minute workshop will cover:

  • The benefits of DBS and your organisation working together
  • What ‘regulated activity’ is
  • When a DBS barring referral should be made, including when the legal duty is met
  • The three different referral routes
  • How to make a good quality referral
  • The consequences of not making appropriate barring referrals
  • The consequences of being included on one or both Barred Lists

DBS Information Gathering Workshop

This 90 minute workshop will cover:

  • Why requests are made by DBS and what we do with that information
  • The legal duty placed on organisations to provide this information
  • The legislation that underpins these requests and allows for sharing with confidence
  • The importance of responding to requests to safeguard vulnerable groups

DBS Update Service Workshop

This 90 minute workshop will cover:

  • What the Update Service is (and is not)
  • Which DBS certificates can be registered with the service
  • Benefits of the service to applicants and recruiters
  • Status checking & interpreting the results
  • Update Service and Home-Based positions
  • Using the Update Service when recruitment decisions are made off site

DBS Barring Referral Service Workshop

This 60 minute workshop will cover:

  • Who has a legal duty to refer
  • When a referral should be made
  • How to make a Barring Referral

DBS Harmful Behaviour Workshop

This 90 minute workshop will cover:

  • What we mean by harmful behaviour
  • Safeguarding, Abuse and Neglect
  • Relevant Conduct and Risk of Harm
  • Harmful behaviour and the transferability of risk
  • How to make a Barring referral to DBS