DBS 2025-28 Strategy
Our previous strategy was developed to change and embed the foundations on which we work, and we have achieved the majority of what we set out to achieve by 2025.
This new strategy has taken account of manyvoices, both internally and externally, and has been developed to drive and deliver the further changes needed to transform our services to customers.
Our objectives are clearly laid out in this strategy, and they support our shared vision to make recruitment and employment safer, providing an outstanding quality of service, and ensuring that our people understand the important contributions they make to safeguarding. The achievement of these objectives will involve further change throughout the organisation including the internal reshaping our of Operations teams and introduction of new technology to better support the delivery of our products and services.
Our robust governance model will continue to provide oversight and assurance, and inform key decisions, aswell as ensuring that we are compliant with our formal delegations from the Home Office and meet the relevant legal and regulatory obligations. To fulfil our purpose, achieve our vision, and make the right impacts by 2028, we will focus on the following 5 strategic objectives over the next 3 years:
- Our products and services
We will provide accessible, timely, and high-quality products and services effectively. - Being vible, trusted, and influential
We will be a visible, trusted, and influential organisation by delivering additional targeted engagement and achieving measurable results with our stakeholders. - Delivering through innovative technology
We will harness innovative technologies to support process developments and increase our ability and agility to respond to future demands, improving the efficiency andeffectiveness of our services. - Customer data and insight led
We will be customer data and insight led, actively seeking, and using data and feedback to drive change at DBS, providing the best possible journey for our customers and influencing change externally. - Being people-focused
We will guide and support our people to navigate and adapt to change, ensuring DBS continues to fulfil its safeguarding role in a sustainable way.
Our strategic priorities
Our strategic priorities as an organisation are detailed within our 2025-28 strategy, however, here is a high-level overview of our objectives:
- We will provide accessible, timely, high-quality products and services effectively
- We will be a visible, trusted, and influential organisation by delivering services effectively and achieving measurable results with stakeholders
- We will harness innovative technologies to support process developments and increase our ability and agility to respond to future demands, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our services
- We will be customer and insight led, actively seeking and using data and feedback to provide the best possible journey for our customers, to drive change at DBS, and to influence change externally
- We will guide and support our people to navigate and adapt to change, ensuring DBS continues to fulfil its safeguarding role in a sustainable way
Our Purpose
Protecting the public by helping employers make safer recruitment and employment decisions, and by barring individuals who pose a risk to vulnerable people.
Our Vision
We will make recruitment and employment safer, by being a visible, trusted, and influential organisation. We willprovide an outstanding quality of service to all of our customers and partners. Our people will understand the important contributions they make to safeguarding and feel proud to work within an inclusive and increasingly diverse organisation.
Our strategic impacts by 2028
Everything that we do between now and 2028 will be to achieve our strategic impacts; all activity to fulfil that achievement will be undertaken to deliver positive difference in safeguarding, improved quality in our services,optimised value for money, sustainability, and improved diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing.
We will contribute to lowering the risk of harm to children, vulnerable adults, organisations, and wider society. We will help enable individuals to safely enter employment and protect the right to rehabilitation.
We will contribute to economic growth by providing value for money services which support employers to make effective and efficient recruitment and employment decisions.