Eligibility guidance for enhancedEnhanced DBS checks
Guides to help you identify the types of work eligible for an enhancedEnhanced DBS check in each workforces, including regulated activity.
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- Disclosure and Barring Service
- Published
- 18 April 2016
- Last updated
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Documents
Adult workforce guide
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Other workforce guide
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Child workforce guide
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Details
This is not a comprehensive list of all conditions which have to apply for the role to be eligible. The applicant will still need to meet eligibility criteria before the Registered Body considers the workforce.
Employers need to add the workforce in section x line 61 of the DBS application form.
DBS application forms that don’t state the workforce will be rejected.
Regulated activity
Guidance about regulated activity with children has been published by the Department for Education (DfE).
Information about regulated activity with adults is available from the Department of Health (DH).
The guides above will help you identify the type of workforce that an applicant will be working in.
They set out the types of roles in each of the workforces.
Supervision of children
Statutory guidance on supervising activity with children, which is regulated activity when unsupervised.
- 10 September 2012
- Statutory guidance
DBS guidance leaflets
More information regarding eligibility can be found in our DBS guidance leaflets.
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2026-09-01 10:17
Updated to link to new guidance as of 1st September supervision exemption changes
2026-01-20 14:39
Due to new self-employed guidance coming in on 21 Jan, information about: -Individuals applying for or renewing a pedicab licence in London-Registered healthcare professionals working for or on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions to assess children or vulnerable adultshas been added to the other workforce guide
2024-07-05 13:41
Updated attachment uploaded including newest policy updates
Details
This is not a comprehensive list of all conditions which have to apply for the role to be eligible. The applicant will still need to meet eligibility criteria before the Registered Body considers the workforce.
Employers need to add the workforce in section x line 61 of the DBS application form.
DBS application forms that don’t state the workforce will be rejected.
Regulated activity
Guidance about regulated activity with children has been published by the Department for Education (DfE).
Information about regulated activity with adults is available from the Department of Health (DH).
The guides above will help you identify the type of workforce that an applicant will be working in.
They set out the types of roles in each of the workforces.
Supervision of children
Statutory guidance on supervising activity with children, which is regulated activity when unsupervised.
- 10 September 2012
- Statutory guidance
DBS guidance leaflets
More information regarding eligibility can be found in our DBS guidance leaflets.
Updates to this page
Sign up for emails or print this page
Update history
2026-09-01 10:17
Updated to link to new guidance as of 1st September supervision exemption changes
2026-01-20 14:39
Due to new self-employed guidance coming in on 21 Jan, information about: -Individuals applying for or renewing a pedicab licence in London-Registered healthcare professionals working for or on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions to assess children or vulnerable adultshas been added to the other workforce guide
2024-07-05 13:41
Updated attachment uploaded including newest policy updates