The Recruitment Rule I’d Break: “Once Someone Has Passed Their DBS Check, That Box Is Ticked”

This post by Tim Burchell at UK Private Investigators is part of our blog series, “The Recruitment Rule I’d Break”.
The recruitment rule I would break is simple: once someone has passed their DBS check, that box is ticked.
It is an understandable shortcut. Recruitment involves deadlines, compliance tasks and pressure to fill roles. But a completed check can become false reassurance when nobody can explain what it established, what it did not establish and why it remains appropr