What is a verifier?

The verifier is simply the person responsible for recruiting staff and volunteers that your organisation wants to check.

The verifier makes sure that anyone having a DBS check understands the nature of the check, and takes the legal responsibility of confirming that the person has shown their documents and they have verified them. This means that you need to have seen the documents in real life – you are not allowed to excuse someone from showing you their documentation just because you know them.