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DBS Application Guide

Please read our DBS Application Guide to help you navigate the application form and highlight important information needed to obtain your DBS.

If you have any questions about DBS checks, please visit the LTA Help Centre.

If you have lived in another country outside of the UK, please go to our page on Overseas Criminal Records (OCR) before proceeding further.

If you have any technical issues with the application form, please contact First Advantage in the first instance.

T: 0115 969 4600

E: support@onlinedisclosures.co.uk

Important information

Once you complete the form below, you'll be taken directly into your DBS application. You will also receive an email with a link to the application form if you want to complete this at a later date (you will need to use the email and password entered below to login).

Arranging an ID Check

When completing the DBS application form, you will be asked to choose your preferred method of ID check:

  • Post Office - select 'Post Office' in the application form and follow the instructions on the link
  • LTA ID Checker - select 'Organisation' in the application form and contact details will be provided if an ID Checker is available at your venue.

You must complete the ID check before your DBS application will be submitted for processing.

Please select your venue from the list below. If you work at multiple venues, select the primary one. If you are a Free Park Tennis Activator, please select 'Free Park Tennis' from the list.

If your venue is not shown in the list, please use the Contact Us form to ask for your venue to be added. If your venue is not there and you are needing the DBS urgently then please select ‘LTA General’ from the venue list to continue with your application.

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  • Please select a venue

Please make a selection to enter the ballot

Why do you need DBS for ?
How frequently are you doing this work?
Are you being constantly supervised (direct line of sight) when undertaking this work?
Are you being paid for this work?
Do you plan becoming accredited within the next 12 months?
In the last five years, have you lived in another country outside of the UK for a total period of at least six months?

Please fill the below form if you lived in another country outside of the UK for a total period of at least six months in the last five years.
OCR - Certificate Upload and References

ID VERIFICATION

As part of your DBS application, you are required to have your identity documents verified. Please answer the questions below to decide which type of ID verification you can use.

Please note that the verification method CANNOT BE CHANGED once it has been selected - a new application will be required which will incur further payment, however applicants can apply for a refund from First Adavantage by contacting the at https://help.fadv.com/

Do you wish to use Digital ID? (Digital ID allows for instant verification using your phone to scan your documents and face, without needing to travel anywhere)

To complete a Digital ID check you must have at least two forms of ID, with one of these needing to be either a chip-enabled passport or a Biometric Resident Permit (BRP). We accept the following forms of ID:

  • Passport (chip-enabled)?
    If your passport is chip-enabled, you will see this symbol (see image below) on the front cover of your passport. These passports are sometimes referred to as ‘ePassports
  • Biometric Resident Permit (BRP)
  • Driving License
  • National ID Card

You have successfuly

Submitted the DBS form

Role that has been identified, based on your answers is

Note that 'RA' means Regulated Activity and 'nonRA' means non-regulated activity.

If you believe this level of DBS check is incorrect, or you will be working with adults who receive a health or social care service, please contact us before proceeding further.

More information about how they can start their application process