#014 - How To Use DBS Checks To Gain A Competitive Edge & Increase Your Prices!

DBS: Disclosure & Barring Services. What are they and how can they make you money? Discover how easy it is to get yourself checked and instantly prove yourself as a credible, serious and concerned market leader! KEY TAKEAWAYS DBS Used to be CRB checks - a government body replacing the Criminal Records Bureau & Independent Safeguarding Authority. Better & safer recruitment decisions. DBS check police records and barred lists locally and nationally, for children and vulnerable adults. Only employees & organisations can apply for DBS checks 3 Types of DBS Check: Standard: shows spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands, final warnings, individuals may apply. Enhanced: Same as standard check plus information held by local police that they may consider relevant to your role. Enhanced Check With Barred Lists: You can be put on a barred list if you have a certain criminal background. Same as previous enhanced check plus using the barred checks specific to your role. Use these checks in your advertising and marketing materials. If your competition isn’t DBS checked and you are, that gives you a significant competitive edge. How Do You Get DBS checked? As an individual, you can apply online for a standard check. For an enhanced disclosure, you’ll have to go through a responsible organisation at gov.uk/guidance/responsible-organisations. As an individual you can’t apply for an enhanced disclosure. £60-70, rolling renewal. BEST MOMENTS Getting yourself DBS checked and putting that information instantly improves your credibility and positions you as a serious and concerned person. Be proud! Would you send your children to a tutor with enhanced disclosure or a tutor with nothing? These checks can position you at a higher price in the minds of your customers and they’re inexpensive to get done. VALUABLE RESOURCES Standard DBS Check Enhanced DBS Check ABOUT THE HOST Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS! CONTACTS https://www.facebook.com/NeilCowmeadowGuitar/ https://www.neilcowmeadow.com/ 01952 882 928