The DBS update service lets applicants keep their DBS certificates up to date online and allows employers to check a certificate online. whether a student on placement or volunteer to domestic premises where childcare is taking place, has to have a new DBS check.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.our role in checking employers who use existing DBS checks.whether we will let people start work before they have a DBS check.
when we require people who are already registered with or agreed suitable by Ofsted to repeat their DBS check.when we will accept existing DBS checks obtained via another organisation.
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.
