The Disclosure and Barring Service helps employers make safer recruitment decisions.
As part of its commitment to ensuring that children, young people and adults are kept safe from harm, the Catholic Church in England and Wales will apply robust selection and appointment processes to anybody who is applying to work or minister within the Church in a role which gives them direct access to children or adults.
New volunteers in a role that requires a DBS certificate must complete the Safer Recruitment Process in full before taking up any role within the parish.
The process for application can be found here.
Please find the criteria and links below to all the forms required for the individual processes of application for safer recruitment and DBS check.
New applicants who have an email address using the electronic DBS application form process should complete the forms below.
After all forms and 3 valid identity documents are received by the safeguarding team applicants will be sent the Electronic DBS application form by email.
New applicants who do not have an email address using the paper DBS application form process should complete the forms below.
After all forms and 3 valid identity documents are received by the safeguarding team applicants will be sent the DBS paper application form by post.
Applicants undergoing a 3 year recheck who have an email address using the electronic DBS application form process should complete the forms below.
Applicants must supply 3 documents for verification
After all forms and 3 valid identity documents are received by the safeguarding team applicants will be sent the Electronic DBS application form by email.
Applicants undergoing a 3 year recheck who do not have an email address using the paper DBS application form process should complete the forms below.
Applicants must supply 3 documents for verification.
After all forms and 3 valid identity documents are received by the safeguarding team applicants will be sent the DBS paper application form by post.
Applicants undergoing a 3 year recheck who have subscribed to the DBS online update subscription service, with a certificate issued via Liverpool Archdiocese, and have not changed their role or added any new roles should complete the forms below.
Applicants undergoing a 3 year recheck who have subscribed to the DBS online update subscription service, with a certificate issued via another diocese, religious order, organization, or their employer, where the level of check issued on the original certificate is identical to the level of check required for their parish role should complete the forms below.
Applicants must supply 3 documents for verification and present their original certificate to the diocesan safeguarding counter-signatory (photocopies and scanned copies cannot be accepted)
If an applicant cannot provide their original certificate for verification, they would be required to undergo the full recheck process as above.
If the level of check on the original certificate is different to that needed for their parish roles the volunteer would be required to undergo a full 3 year recheck as above.
Applicants who have an email address using the electronic DBS application form process should complete the forms below.
Applicants must supply 3 documents for verification.
After all forms and 3 valid identity documents are received by the safeguarding team, applicants will be sent the Electronic DBS form by email.
Applicants who do not have an email address using the paper DBS application form process should complete the forms below.
Applicants must supply 3 documents for verification.
After all forms and 3 valid identity documents are received by the safeguarding team, applicants will be sent the DBS paper application form by post.
