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Volunteers are the backbone of many an organisation with an estimated 20 million people giving up their time free of charge to help a worthy cause every year. A lot of voluntary work is going to require some level of CRB check, be it basic or enhanced.

If you work in financial services you will have a responsibility towards your clients and customers, so there is a strong likelihood that you will need a CRB check. A degree in finance and any accountancy qualifications won’t count for much without the vital ingredient – clearance from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), commonly known as a CRB check.

Thousands of children across the UK rely on home to school transport each day to get them to their place of education. There are two main groups of children who rely on home to school transport.

Employers are looking at all aspects of office life, from layout to your work/life balance in an attempt to keep workers happy. Perhaps surprisingly, one of the key factors in keeping your staff happy could be running proper background and DBS checks before they even start work.

The debate about funding of the BBC is nothing new, and every so often there are calls for the licence fee to be scrapped. Moving to a model where television is funded by advertising is the way many other European countries run their broadcasters, but so far, the UK has resisted this move.

Recently, the MIB has raised serious concerns that the economic impact of Covid-19 could lead to more drivers being tempted into cutting corners on their insurance, increasing the numbers of uninsured drivers on the road. Police have also announced a campaign to crack down on drivers without insurance and driving without insurance could have a serious implication for your job prospects in the future.

Care homes have been in the news for all the wrong reasons over 2020. A Blackpool care home hit the headlines over the summer due to failures over background checking and DBS checks, resulting in increased monitoring from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and increased frequency of checking.

This year for many teenagers has been like no other year. After exams were cancelled in the early summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there was another period of turmoil when the results were issued in August and not all young people got what they had been expecting.

If you’re applying for a new job or have been asked to re-apply for your DBS check, then a recent press release from the DBS should guide you in the right direction. Their list of the most common mistakes made on DBS forms should help guide your form-filling and stop you from falling into many of the same traps.

When initial changes were made to the method for checking identities back in March, most of us didn’t think we’d still be adjusting to the new ways of working several months later. Many of the measures which were introduced on a temporary basis in March are still here in the autumn, and with no end-date, it’s likely that many of the “temporary” changes will be with us well into 2021.