North Yorkshire councillors should undergo a criminal records check to ensure they are safe to be alone with the public, a ...

Politicians at City Hall said they were worried about the fact that the LFB are currently only entitled to perform a ‘basic’ DBS check on new staff, while the capital’s other emergency ...

You can apply for a DBS check on yourself through the Disclosure and Barring Service. A basic DBS check costs £18, and will show any unspent criminal convictions. It usually takes around 14 days to ...

A former Metropolitan Police officer shot himself dead with a gun from his new job after a past conviction for a violent crime was left off his criminal record, an inquest has heard.

During the debate on DBS checks at Tuesday's meeting of the council's cabinet, external, its new leader, Adam Brown, said: "When we had the debate surrounding the conduct of the previous leader ...