The Disclosure and Barring Service produced this list for a Freedom of Information request. It contains registered bodies that have processed applications for which registration was requested on the Update Service. The data covers registrations from June 17, 2013 onward.
Use Cases
- Track organizational registration trends based on the Update Service request date.
- Analyze the volume of registration requests processed by registered bodies.
- Identify registered bodies active in the DBS Update Service system.
Strengths
- Data is produced by the official UK Disclosure and Barring Service.
- The temporal coverage is defined, starting from June 17, 2013.
- Released under the OGL-UK-3.0 license for public reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- The Disclosure and Barring Service
- Collection Method
- Produced for a Freedom of Information request.
- Time Range
- From June 17, 2013 onward.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:47.625098; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- United Kingdom