Basic Disclosure And Barring Service Check
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A Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check is a United Kingdom (UK) criminal record check and can be obtained for a person living or working in England and Wales. The Basic DBS Check includes a digital identity verification service. Reported results will contain details of convictions and conditional cautions considered to be unspent under the terms of the .
The check is available in the United Kingdom
The check is not available for . ❌
Human Resources
Yes
Property Management
No
Include this flag in the body of your request:
To invite an applicant to complete a screen, include this parameter in the body of your request:
email
You also need to provide the employment sector to indicate the purpose of the check and the position. Use the following fields:
employment_sector
role_or_position_title
See all available Application parameters.
The following example contains fields for someone applying for employment.
Clear results
*(will accept any name)
*(will accept any name)
Records found
*(will accept any name)
Notclear
You may receive a 400 Bad Request
if:
A Basic DBS Check invite is sent without specifying employment_sector
or role_or_position_title
.
How to fix this issue
Add the appropriate fields with valid values before sending your request.
Quickscreen
Quickscreen
Invite
Report field:
Send Basic DS Check requests with the following sets of data on our to retrieve our pre-filled reports.
The employment_sector
value is not a valid value from the list provided in the .