Please see the email asking you to complete your DBS check for full details on the deadline. 

This must include:

• completing the DBS check details online
• taking identity documents to the Post Office for verification

We do not expect all DBS certificates to have been issued by this date, but you must have completed the two steps outlined above by the deadline.

We write to applicants about DBS in batches. If you've been contacted later than your friend, your deadline will be later than theirs.

If you are afraid you cannot meet the deadline you have been set, please contact Senior Placement Adminstrator:  Katherine Lawson

You can use only the documents required by the DBS service. Visit the gov.uk website to find out more.

If you have any queries please visit the First Advantage Online Disclosures website.

If you cannot find the answer to your question, please contact the First Advantage Online Disclosures team:

• 0115 969 4600
• support@onlinedisclosures.co.uk

You must take your documents to the Post Office where they will be checked and immediately returned to you. Post Office staff will scan a barcode that you provide which will be issued to you by First Advantage after you have input all of your details on their system. This barcode scan notifies the DBS service that your identity has been verified and your check will be set in motion.

Please note that only certain Post Offices offer the First Advantage checking service. Visit the First Advantage website for further details.

If you do not have enough of the eligible documents listed on the gov.uk website, please contact Senior Placement Adminstrator:  Katherine Lawson

We'll need to talk to you to find out when it's possible to run your DBS check and if necessary, we may need to seek approval from the admissions tutor to request an extension to the deadline.

All firm offer holders are asked to do a new DBS check with our provider First Advantage Online Disclosures.

The DBS check will cover you for three years’ study. If you need a new one because your course is longer than three years or because you take time out of the course and do not complete within three years, you'll need a second check so that you have cover, unless your original check is registered with the DBS Update Service. 

In the event that a placement provider specify the need for an updated DBS, the School of Biosciences will pay.

We strongly recommend that you register your new DBS on the DBS Update Service.

School of Biosciences students who choose not to register for the update service will have to self-fund any additional DBS costs. For example - if you take an interruption to studies, if you're required to make up time and extend your course for any reason, or for any elective requirements.

Overseas and EU students are required to undertake an international DBS check. We'll send you details of how to do this via email. 

If you're already currently living in the UK but have lived in other countries for more than six months in the past five years, you'll be required to complete both a UK DBS check now and also international DBS checks for each of the countries you've lived in. We'll contact you about this at offer holder stage.

If you're unsure of what you're required to do, please email Senior Placement Administrator:  Katherine Lawson

You do need to bring your DBS certificate to university with you as it will be required during the Autumn term of your 1^st year.