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CRB Disclosure Unit
Room AG10/11
Essex County Council
County Hall
Chelmsford
Essex County Council
CM1 1LX

Telephone: 0845 603 7633

Essex Disclosure Service

Since April 2005, the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) has been reducing the number of organisations able to process their own criminal disclosure checks, based on the number of applications  they make annually. As a result, many smaller organisations now require a third party ‘umbrella’ company to carry out the checks on their behalf.
 
As a registered umbrella body, licensed by the CRB and the Independent Safeguarding Authority, Essex Disclosure Service is able to manage the disclosure process on behalf of companies.
 
Essex Disclosure Service provides a one-stop solution to the disclosure needs of companies across all business sectors, providing insight into the different types of check and ensuring that checks carried out are appropriate for company needs.
 
Having entered into a contractual relationship with companies, Essex Disclosure Service calculates the fees required and processes them on a bi-monthly basis, streamlining the checking and invoicing process for businesses of all sizes. 

Disclosure checks for foreign workers

Please visit the Home Office website if you are interested in:
  • information on countries with a recognised procedure for obtaining criminal records of its citizens
  • confirming the existence and contents of an existing criminal record of a potential employee

In many cases, the request for information must come from the employee.

 

Essex Disclosure Service Helpline

The Essex Disclosure Service helpline is open from 8.30 am until 5.00 pm from Monday to Friday, and the company can deal with both high and low volume disclosure requests.
 
As well as providing a range of guidance documents and information to help with the application process we also provide information specific to particular issues: