Guidance

Digital identity certification for right to work, right to rent and criminal record checks

Guidance on how digital identity providers can become certified to complete digital identity checks for the 'Right to Work', 'Right to Rent' and DBS schemes.

From:
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Julia Lopez MP
Published
17 January 2022
Last updated
307 SeptemberOctober 2022 — See all updates

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Digital identity certification for right to work, right to rent and criminal record checks

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On 27 December 2021, the government announced its intention to enable employers and landlords to use certified digital identity service providers to carry out identity checks on their behalf for many who are not in scope to use the Home Office online services, including British and Irish citizens. The legislation will take effect from 6 April 2022.

This development will align with the Disclosure and Barring Service’s (DBS) proposal to enable digital identity checking within their criminal record checking process, through the introduction of its Identity Trust Scheme.

This guidance sets how providers can become certified to complete digital identity checks for the Right to Work, Right to Rent, and DBS schemes respectively, in line with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (‘the trust framework’).

Published 17 January 2022
Last updated 307 SeptemberOctober 2022 + show all updates

  1. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'

  2. Under Section 6 'List of certified IDSPs', the 'Schemes certified against' column has been updated for uComply Limited

  3. Details of four organisations have been added to section 6 - 'List of certified IDSPs'

  4. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'

  5. Changed the contactable email address for Digidentity B.V.

  6. Contact email address for Amiqus Resolution Ltd has been updated. Certification document and the schemes certified against has been updated for Credas Technologies Ltd

  7. Details of a newly certified organisation have published under section 6 - List of certified IDSPs

  8. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to the 'List of certified IDSPs'. Updated the website link for 'Paycasso Verify Ltd trading as Xydus' and updated the certification document for 'Deloitte LLP'

  9. Amended the link for the Credas certification document as the original document contained an administrative error

  10. Details of two newly certified organisations have been added to the 'List of certified IDSPs'

  11. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to the 'List of certified IDSPs'

  12. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to the 'List of certified IDSPs'

  13. Details of a newly certified organisation has been added under section 6.

  14. A new IDSP has been added to the list of certified IDSPs. Section 3 'What do IDSPs become certified against?' has been updated to reflect the recent publication of the beta version of the trust framework.

  15. Added a new organisation to the list of certified organisations. Amended contact details for HooYu Limited

  16. Added organisation to table in List of certified IDSPs.

  17. Added list of certified IDSPs.

  18. Updated the guidance to reflect recent changes to the Right to Work, Right to Rent and DBS schemes. A new link to the UKAS website has been inserted which provides the list of certification bodies.

  19. First published.