Applicants need not enter names relating to their previous gender: DBS form

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AndYetItMoves · 03/09/2018 13:05

Just reading this tweet

twitter.com/chollode/status/1036577729410420737?s=21

Can anyone help clarify what DBS means?

Either you have to list previous names or not...?

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PutItAwayDear · 03/09/2018 13:17

But.. what happens if someone doesn't contact the sensitive team? If they just don't provide their previous name/s? Is there a way for this to be checked? As that's a concern full stop regardless of gender identity bollocks. How robust are the procedures for checking if someone has been honest about their previous names on a DBS check?

53rdWay · 03/09/2018 13:16

I read that as “applicants don’t have to enter names relating to their previous gender, but if you choose not to then you need to contact this email address about it”? But it is hard to follow - you could equally read as “don’t have to enter names relating to previous gender but contact us if you choose to.”

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AndYetItMoves · 03/09/2018 13:15

It's a huge safeguarding issue and I'd like to ring them to find out what their policies already are. The form states one thing and the tweets state the opposite. Obfuscation?

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Letshopeitsallok · 03/09/2018 13:12

But if it is true that’s a massive safeguarding issue.

I’m shocked anyone thought that was a good idea.

Letshopeitsallok · 03/09/2018 13:11

I did one a few months ago and it said if you were transgender to not continue with online form and call a confidential number instead.

I wonder if different authorities have different processes.

Foxglovesandprimroses · 03/09/2018 13:10

DBS is Disclosure Barring Service which replaced CRB checks some years ago.

Surely that can't be right. So a convicted offender now identifying as trans can apply for work with children and the DBS won't ask for former names?

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