Learn More About Criminal Records Bureau Checks, Police Check and CRB Disclosure.

Which occupations require a criminal background check?

Who Can Apply

To enable us to obtain a Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure for you on your behalf we would need to identify if you qualify. To qualify you would need to be working in any of the occupations listed below, usually working with children or vulnerable adults or within financial services.

Enhanced:

• Health Services
  • Doctor
  • Dentist
  • Optician (including ophthalmic optician)
  • Pharmacist
  • Director of private dental or opticians practice
  • Partner in a private opticians
  • Partner in a Pharmacists
• Legal
• Judicial Appointments
• Betting and gaming
• Selling, supplying or maintaining gaming machines
• Posts concerned with betting
• Positions in a casino
• Local lottery manager or promoter
• National Lottery posts
• Others
• Regularly caring for, training, supervising or being in sole charge of persons aged under 18
• Regularly caring for training, supervising or being in sole charge of vulnerable adults
• Child minding and day care posts
• Foster parents
• Adoptive parents
• Social workers and social care workers
• National Care Standards Commission

Standard:

(On entry into the following professions...)

• Medical
  • Doctor
  • Dentist
  • Nurse or midwife
  • Ophthalmic or dispensing optician
  • Pharmacists
  • Paramedics, clinical scientists, speech and language therapists
  • Osteopath
  • Chiropractor
  • Psychologist
• Legal
• Barrister
• Foreign Lawyer
• Legal Executive
• Receiver appointed by the Court of Protection
• Finance
• Actuary
• Accountant
• Education
• Teacher (Scotland)
• Others
• Vet

Standard:

(The following types of work...)

• Legal
  • In the Crown Prosecution Service
  • Justices' chief executives, justices clerks and their assistants
• Police/Prisons
• Police Officers
• Work in a prison or high security psychiatric hospital
• Traffic wardens
• Probation officers.
• Staff who work in probation and bail hostels
• Employment in the Serious Fraud Squad
• Employment in the National Crime Squad or the National Criminal Intelligence Service
• Education
• Work in a further education institution where normal duties involve regular contact with those aged under 18
• Health
• Health Services
• Care services to vulnerable adults
• Managers of abortion clinics
• Others
• RSPCA
• Employment in HM Customs and Excise
• Monitoring internet communications for the purpose of child protection
• Firearms dealers
• Gaming industry
• Financial services sector
• Work with people aged under 18 in a regulated position
• Safeguarding national security
• Those living in the same household as a person whose suitability is being assessed for a position working with children and who lives on the same premises where his/her work with children would normally take place
• Licensing
• Taxi licence
• Licence issued by the new Security Industry Authority

CRB Disclosure Levels and levels Police check

• BASIC: 

  A Basic Disclosure is a security check (termed as a "criminal conviction certificate" in Part V of the Police Act 1997) is the lowest level of Disclosure and is available to anyone for any purpose, on payment of the appropriate fee.  It contains details of convictions considered unspent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 or state that there are no such convictions.  This type of Disclosure is only issued to the applicant.  It is not job-specific or job related and may be used more than once.
  

  Basic disclosures
  

• STANDARD: This is a criminal records check certificate as defined under Section 113(3) of the Police Act 1997. This criminal background check certificate contains details of all convictions on record, plus details of any cautions, warnings or reprimands. This level of disclosure would be for individuals who are involved with working with children or are in regular contact with vulnerable adults, accountancy occupations and some health services. If a Standard Disclosure is required for a position working ,with children, it will also give any information on government lists of people considered unsuitable to work with children.

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• ENHANCED:  This is an enhanced criminal record check certificate as defined under Section 115(6) of the Police Act 1997. These contain all the details on a Standard Disclosure but also involve an extra level of ploice check. Checking with local police authorities as well as the Police National Computer and relevant government lists, it is the decision of the Chief Constable in the relevant police authority as to what, if any, information is disclosed.

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