jolly good so can you explain to people that changing your birth certificate does not erase your original one and that the dbs process does have access to your previous records. becuse that I beleive is the reality of this.
I can't do that, actually, because - here's the thing - I don't know that it does. I've only recently had my DBS renewed and if I recall the current procedure correctly, the onus is very much on the applicant to be honest. Which - as we all know - your average nonce wanting access to children is unlikely to be.
I have no idea at all that applying under your brand new, 'on your birth certificate as if it's always been your name since you parents named you as a baby' name still flags up to the DBS service your old, 'sex you were born and name you were registered under' certificate.
How should I know? I'm very, very worried about the possibility that this offers to offenders, however.
PS On reflection, I can imagine a fair few employers of people where safeguarding is an issue being a tad more wary of trans applicants because of this. Unfairly in most cases, of course. But human nature and the requirement for managers to be tough on safeguarding will make some - especially if it does emerge that the DBS process cannot properly identify someone who has 'erased' previous names - very wary indeed.