Dear Mr Howe
Thank you for your email of 28th June 2023, submitted to the Principal of
Homewood School and Sixth form Centre, made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. I am pleased to provide the following information in
response to your questions.

"Please can you advise how your establishment process DBS applications
where applicable - is this paper or do you use a particular 3rd party
provider and if so can you advise how many applications per year do you
process?

Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre use EmploymentCheck to process their
DBS applications.
The number of DBS applications undertaken per year varies but in the most
recent years the data is as follows:
1st September 2019 to 31st August 2020 - 78
1st September 2020 to 31st August 2021 - 72
1st September 2021 to 31st August 2022 - 84
1st September 2023 to 5th July 2023 - 55
Kind regards

Sally Marsh

Data Protection Officer

Tenterden Schools Trust

c/o Homewood School, Ashford Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LT

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