Safer recruitment for care services: Schedule 3 checks, enhanced DBS with barred list, right to work, references, employment gaps and sponsored workers.
Care providers
Recruitment and DBS Checks Policy
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A complete safer recruitment policy for a CQC-registered care service. It sets out every check Regulation 19 and Schedule 3 of the 2014 Regulations require, how to do DBS and right to work checks properly, how to deal with references, gaps and criminal records, and the position on overseas care workers after the July 2025 visa changes.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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