Our registration team check and verify each applicant's qualifications, identity, and background before approval. This comprehensive process includes a full five-point enhanced DBS check, which is subsequently registered with the update service and monitored in real-time by our safeguarding system. Additionally, we collect evidence of statutory and mandatory training, as well as Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Our team and system monitor and support registrants' compliance to ensure adherence to all required standards.

The HPAC is signposted nationwide in all police custody suites in the country as the non-paramedic referral pathway. This arrangement is based on the principles of common law disclosure and helps to rapidly identify and alert service providers of new risks to patients, staff, the public and employers. The council regularly shares intelligence with police forces in bilateral information exchanges when dealing with referrals and fitness to practice investigations. This helps both law enforcement and HPAC to better serve and protect citizens, staff, and employers through regulatory compliance.

We revalidate all DBS certificates on a daily basis, ensuring we hold the most up to date Enhanced DBS information on all our registrants. Registrants can readily prove that their DBS has been revalidated by scanning their ID cards. HPAC also shares details of relevant referrals that we receive with the DBS. Details of our investigations, including registrant compliance with the fitness to practice process and outcomes, provide valuable insight for the Barring Service when assessing individuals.

HPAC is included in the DBS' safeguarding landscape as represented in the image below.