What are Spent and Unspent Convictions?Īfter a specific time period, many convictions become ‘spent’ which means they must be ignored by employers, as if they’d never happened. What Shows Up On A Basic DBS Check?Ī Basic DBS Certificate contains all unspent convictions, final warnings, conditional cautions, and reprimands from the Police National Computer (PNC). If you want to read more about the documents needed for any of the DBS Disclosure checks, we have written an Application Guide – linked here. Some of the more common documents used for DBS checks are: The documents needed for a Basic DBS check depend on two things: which country the applicant is from, and what documents they actually have available.

What Documents Are Needed For A Basic Disclosure Check?