Basic Disclosures

Our Safeguarding Helpline for safeguarding questions or concerns is open as normal until 5pm Christmas Eve, and will reopen at 9am on the 5th January.

Our Membership helpline for membership enquiries is open as normal until 5pm Christmas Eve, and will reopen at 9am on the 5th January.

Our Disclosure helpline for enquiries related to criminal record checks is open as normal until 5pm 23rd December, and will reopen at 9am on the 5th January.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from all of us at Thirtyone:eight.

Basic disclosures are useful where a role is not eligible for an enhanced check but requires (or publicly indicates) a certain level of trust by an organisation. 

This could include roles such as:

Worship leaders
People providing transport to/from events
Administrators and Finance officers
Food bank volunteers
Welcomers and refreshment servers
Preachers
and others

Anyone can apply as long as they live or work in the UK (those living/working in Scotland will need to apply via Disclosure Scotland and those in Northern Ireland via Access NI).

The DBS fee for a basic disclosure is £21.50 per check (no difference for paid or volunteer workers) plus our admin fee (the same as you already pay for your Enhanced checks).

Basic disclosures are a very useful recruitment aid but please remember that a basic must NEVER be used in place of an enhanced disclosure, where the role is eligible for an enhanced check.

Enable my organisation to process Basic Disclosures

The Lead Recruiter should complete the below fields to enable basic disclosures to be submitted.

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I confirm that my organisation would like to be enabled to process Basic disclosures

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