Safer recruitment, enhanced DBS checks, childcare disqualification, ongoing suitability and Ofsted notifications for early years providers, updated for the September 2026 EYFS.
Childcare
Staff Suitability and DBS Policy (EYFS)
About this document
Your policy for making sure everyone who works with children, or lives or works on childminding premises, is suitable. It covers safer recruitment, references before employment, enhanced DBS and barred list checks, volunteers, the rule that new staff must not start before their DBS check is received, childcare disqualification (including disqualification by association on domestic premises), ongoing suitability, the DBS referral duty, records and Ofsted notifications. Appendices include a staff suitability record, recruitment checklist, annual declaration, household members record and notifications log.
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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