For example, recruitment of eligible roles in support of the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
Usage of this service is expected to be the exception to the rule, and where there is an explicit and demonstrable link to the legal eligibility criteria. The DBS free-of-charge and fast-track service will remain available until approximately the end of 2022. Following the removal of all COVID-19-related restrictions, recruiting to backfill roles that are explicitly linked to the virus (for example, an existing member of staff is unable to work or has left their employment due to COVID-19-related illness or a period of self-isolation) should be much reduced in comparison to that seen during the height of the pandemic. In addition, the temporary emergency registers for healthcare professionals are now closed to new applicants.Įmployers in the NHS and adult social care should now start to consider submitting applications for DBS checks via the normal chargeable route. There is now a reasonable expectation that the demand for checks submitted via the DBS free-of-charge and fast-track barred list service should drop.
