Overview

The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB), an executive agency of the Home Office, provides access to criminal record and other information to organisations in England and Wales through a service called Disclosure. Its specific purpose is to help organisations make more informed decisions when recruiting people into positions of trust.
 
The Disclosure Service is also available to other professional, licensing and regulatory bodies whose volunteers, employees and licensees are not necessarily in direct contact with the vulnerable, but still need to uphold the highest standards of professional performance and Disclosure can help improve these recruitment decisions as well.
 
Through the Disclosure service and the assistance of Civil & Corporate Security at every stage, organisations can provide greater protection for the vulnerable members of our society and afford greater protection to their customers, staff, volunteers and, ultimately, their organisation.
 
The CRB’s Disclosure service provides access to a range of different types of information, such as, information:
• held on the Police National Computer (PNC), such as, convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings in England, Wales and those recorded from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
• held by local police forces relating to non-conviction information
• from the Government’s protection of Children Act List (POCA)
• from the Government’s Protection of Vulnerable Adults List (POVA)
• held by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) under Section 142 of the Education Act 2002. (Formerly known as List 99)
 
 To provide this service, the CRB offers two levels of Disclosure, each representing a different level of check. The two levels of Disclosure are Standard and Enhanced.
 
These Disclosures cannot be obtained by members of the public and are only available to organisations for those professions, offices, employments of work and occupations listed in the Exceptions order to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.