Standard or Enhanced
DBS Certificate Appeals For Unfair Disclosures

Challenge Inaccurate, Disproportionate or Unlawful DBS Disclosures

Receiving an Enhanced DBS certificate with unexpected information disclosed can be deeply unsettling — particularly when your career, your professional registration, or your livelihood depends on a clear certificate.

A disclosure isn’t just words on a document. It’s a threat to everything you’ve worked for. But here’s what most people don’t realise: the police and the DBS are required to act proportionately when deciding what to include. In practice, they don’t always get it right. When a disclosure is disproportionate, irrelevant, or simply wrong — it can be challenged and removed.

Not every disclosure can be overturned, but many can. The key lies in understanding the legal framework governing what should appear on your certificate, and identifying where the decision-maker failed to apply it correctly.

That’s exactly what we do at Legisia. We’ve successfully appealed hundreds of Enhanced DBS certificates and we’ll tell you honestly whether yours is worth pursuing. If your certificate contains information that shouldn’t be there, you don’t have to accept it. You have options.

If you are applying for safeguarding work overseas, the disclosure rules are stricter. See how ICPC disclosure differs from an Enhanced DBS check and whether your caution or conviction could still be revealed.

If the issue is the underlying police record itself rather than the certificate alone, see our guide on the Record Deletion Process.