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 Science, Innovation and Technology, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, and Julia Lopez MP
Published
17 January 2022
Last updated
2320 JuneJuly 2023 — 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 UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (‘the trust framework’).

Published 17 January 2022
Last updated 2320 JuneJuly 2023 + show all updates

  1. Details of a newly certified organisation added to section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'. Email address for Veriff OÜ has been updated.

  2. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to Section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'. Certification documents for Paycasso Verify Ltd trading as Xydus and Data Zoo Pty Limited have been updated.

  3. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to Section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'. Name for OCR Labs has been updated to IDVerse and has been reflected in the certification document. The certification document and 'schemes certified against' for Thirdfort Limited has been updated.

  4. The 'schemes certified against' column has been updated for Onfido Limited

  5. Certification document and Schemes certified against have been updated for Data Zoo Pty Limited

  6. Email addresses for Zinc and Facephi Biometria SA have been updated and also reflected in their respective certification documents

  7. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'. OneID (a trading name of Digital Identity Net U.K. Ltd) have changed their name to OneID - name and certification document have been updated

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

  9. Details of two newly certified organisations added to Section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'

  10. Details of Jumio UK Limited have been added to the list of certified IDSPs. Certification document for Atlantic Data has been updated.

  11. Fragomen LLP changed their domain name to Fragomen LLP t/a Workright. Atlantic Data have carried out an Extension of Scope for the profiles GPG45 and H2A.

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

  13. Digital Identity Net UK Limited have changed their name to 'OneID (a trading name of Digital Identity Net U.K. Ltd)'. The contact details and certification document have been updated.

  14. Address for Veridas Digital Authentication Solutions, S.L. has been updated

  15. Certification document for Digidentity B.V has been updated

  16. Details of a newly certified organisation added to section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'. Certification document for OCR Labs has been updated. Telephone number for Datachecker Limited has been updated.

  17. Certification documents for iPassport and OCR Labs Global Limited have been updated

  18. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to section 6. 'List of certified IDSPs'. Certification document for Target Professional Services (UK) Limited has been updated.

  19. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to Section 6 List of certified IDSPs. Email address has been added for Target Professional Services (UK) Limited. Certification document for uComply Limited has been updated. Email address for IDSPs looking to become certified has been changed from digitalidentityalpha@dcms.gov.uk to digitalidentity@dcms.gov.uk

  20. Updates to the address for Digidentity B.V. and email address for Veridas Digital Authentication Solutions, S.L.

  21. Details of three newly certified organisations added to section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'

  22. Certification documents for Konfir and Persona Identities Inc have been published

  23. Email address for Konfir has been updated

  24. Details of four newly certified organisations added to Section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'. Certification document for Digital Identity Net UK Limited has been updated to reflect an extension of scope of certification

  25. Details of a newly certified organisation added to section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'

  26. Details of a newly certified organisation have been added to section 6 - 'List of certified IDSPs'. Details of 'Schemes certified against' has been updated for Amiqus Resolution Ltd after widening the scope of their certification.

  27. Details of a newly certified organisation added to section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'

  28. Details of a newly certified provider added to Section 6 'List of certified IDSPs'

  29. Certification documents for HooYu Limited, Paycasso Verify Ltd trading as Xydus, uComply Limited, T4 Communications UK Ltd T/A Rightcheck, Checkback International Group incorporating Vetting Solutions Centre Ltd and Yoti and Post Office EasyID have all been updated. Telephone number and post code for ID Pal Limited have been corrected

  30. Email address, telephone number and website details have been updated for Checkback International Group incorporating Vetting Solutions Centre Ltd

  31. Details of newly certified organisations added to section '6. List of certified IDSPs'. GB Group plc contact information and certification document updated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  39. 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'

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

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

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

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

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

  45. 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.

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

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

  48. Added list of certified IDSPs.

  49. 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.

  50. First published.