Who receives the disclosure certificate?

The DBS will post the disclosure certificate directly to the applicant’s home address. As an employer you should ask the employee to bring in their disclosure certificate so that you can take a photocopy to keep for your records, you must not keep the original disclosure certificate as this belongs to the applicant.

Please note that an applicant has the right to refuse to show you their disclosure certificate however if you have not seen a copy of it this could put your organisation at risk so you should take this into consideration when deciding whether or not to recruit the individual.