Driving instructor criminal record check changes
From 17 June 2013, the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) won鈥檛 be sent a copy of your criminal record check when you鈥檝e applied for it.
This means that you鈥檒l be the only person who gets a copy of the certificate.
DSA will still see an electronic record of whether your criminal record check has anything recorded on it or not, but won鈥檛 be able to see what鈥檚 actually listed on it.
Send your certificate to DSA
DSA will write to you to ask you to post your certificate if it has anything listed on it. You must send the original 鈥� you can鈥檛 send a copy. This will then be returned to you.
Your application to become an approved driving instructor, renew your registration or re-register could be delayed if you don鈥檛 send your certificate as soon as DSA asks for it.
You don鈥檛 need to send your certificate unless DSA tells you to.
Old and minor offences
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has announced that it will be removing certain specified old and minor offences from criminal record certificates from 29 May 2013.
The filtering rules and the list of offences that will never be filtered have been published by DBS.