When applying to some of our courses, you may be required to complete some safeguarding checks prior to your enrolment.
You will be asked to complete safeguarding checks if you are applying to the following courses:
For detailed guidance on the checks that will be completed, select your course from the dropdown below.
MSc Counselling (Children and Young People)
Disclosure Barring Service (DBS)
In 2012, the Criminal Records Bureau and the Independent Safeguarding Authority merged and became what is now known as the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
If you have selected Birmingham City University as your firm choice, you will receive an email inviting you to complete an online DBS application form. This will be sent from our external provider, Know Your People, closer to the start date of your course. This email will be sent from noreply@knowyourpeople.co.uk
Know Your People will provide the University with confirmation that your DBS certificate is complete. You do not need to send a copy of your certificate to the University.
Overseas Disclosure Barring Service
If you have lived outside of the UK for six months or more in the past five years, we will need to see a criminal record check from the country you were living in. You can apply for your criminal overseas check through our external provider, Know Your People, by contacting our Admissions Team who will provide you with the relevant information via your BCU Portal.
Once your criminal record check has been completed, please send your form to admissions@bcu.ac.uk and the Admissions Team will send this to Know Your People on your behalf.
If you already have a criminal record check from the country you were living in, you do not need to apply for one through our online provider. Please just send a copy of your certificate, ensuring it is translated into English where applicable, to admissions@bcu.ac.uk
Further information on your DBS can be found here.