The Enhanced Disclosure

These are for posts involving greater contact with children or vulnerable adults such as a social worker or doctor. Such work might involve regularly caring for, training, supervising or being in sole charge of such people. Enhanced Disclosures are also issued in respect of other positions such as those seeking judicial appointments, and certain statutory licensing purposes.

All Enhanced Disclosures involve an extra level of checking with local police force records in addition to checks with the Police National Computer (PNC) and the government department lists held by the DfES and DH, where appropriate. Local police information can be contained on the both copies of the Disclosure. It is up to the Chief Constable of the police force to decide what, if any, information is disclosed. An example of information contained on both Disclosures could be details of a child protection case conference. Chief Constables can decide that some information is relevant to the position but do not wish the prospective employee to see sight of this information. This could be details of suspected criminal activity were an arrest has not taken place but is anticipated. If this type of local information is available it will be indicated on the top of the Disclosure that further information is being sent by the police. This information will be sent separately to the employer/volunteering organisation only.

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