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Ineligible DBS checks for film/television extras

  • Posted: January 6, 2017
  • / By: Admin
  • / In: Bad practice/ Case studies of employers

We were recently contacted by an individual who, on signing up for extras work with a film and television casting agency, had been told that as a result of ‘new ‘guidance introduced by the Disclosure and Barring Service’, it would be necessary for him to have an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The […]

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