{"id":85705,"date":"2017-10-25T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3d4c829a83e977e82950daa29895dbd6"},"modified":"2017-10-25T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:38:32","slug":"news-story-changes-to-identity-checking-guidelines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85705","title":{"rendered":"News story: Changes to identity checking guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>New ID checking guidelines are being introduced on 24 October 2017. These guidelines will apply to all applications for standard or enhanced checks.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/654569\/ID_checking_guidelines_for_DBS_checking_from_October_24th.pdf\">new guidelines<\/a> will run in parallel with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/dbs-identity-checking-guidelines\/id-checking-guidelines-for-dbs-check-applications\">existing guidelines<\/a> from 24 October 2017 to 25 January 2018, when the existing guidelines will cease to apply.<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate that you\u2019ll need to make changes to relevant literature and inform your customers. Therefore, you can start using the new guidance from 24 October 2017, but have 3 months to transition fully to the new guidance.<\/p>\n<p>The enhancement is being introduced so that DBS\u2019s identity checking process is aligned with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/right-to-work-checks-employers-guide\">right to work<\/a> checks. These state that employers must prevent illegal working in the UK by carrying out document checks on people before employing them to make sure they are allowed to work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information regarding changes to identity (ID) checking guidelines. This is a clarification to the news story published on 2 October 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}