Background Checks During Recruitment

By these, we mean any of the following:

• Verifying information supplied by a job applicant
  
  
• Checking a professional register of members, in order to confirm that an applicant is eligible to practise their profession
  
  
• Asking one or more people who know the person about them (eg, through a reference)
  
  
• Conducting vetting checks (eg, for security purposes, for credit-worthiness, etc)
  
  
• CRB and Disclosure Scotland disclosures, including POVAFirst
  
  
• Undertaking more general searches for background information on an applicant
  
  
• Checks about an applicant’s health, drug and alcohol use, etc
  
  

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