Agencies and schools can currently check if someone appears on the children’s barred list within the Employer Access service.
We decided to split out this service because the children’s barred list is only used:
- if the employer is waiting on the result of a DBS check for a new employee
- to check the status of an employee who worked at a school or college less than 3 months ago
How it works
Users sign in using DfE Sign-in.
Once signed in they can search by the candidate’s last name and date of birth.
If the candidate is a possible match, then the user is told to contact DBS.
If the candidate is not a match, then the user is told that no record has been found.
Further considerations
We’re not sure if the name of the service clearly describes what users are trying to do. We’d like to do research to confirm this.