DBS Address History

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Mods: if this is in the wrong place feel free to move it. Thx. And apologies for the length - context is useful. 

Since taking semi-retirement a few years ago I've used my time productively to include p/t & voluntary work involving in some case children & vulnerable adults. Each role needs an Enhanced DBS Check; all three have taken an age to come back - upwards of 6 weeks - leaving me unable to fulfil my commitments until it's in hand. When each has arrived it's in a different form from the usual DBS Check, with a covering letter stating clearly that it is a full enhanced DBS that references the same criminal record checks. To all intents and purposes it's an equivalent. The letter does state that due to the way it was processed it falls outside of the update service - no big problem. A couple of institutions have questioned it and one has rejected it, requiring me to be accompanied when on their site.

After a lot of wondering why mine are so delayed and in a different format I realised it may be because in the late 80s I disappeared off the radar - moved away from my parents' address to a different county, and in part due to the anticipated (correctly so) transient nature of that relationship I was never on the electoral roll for that address. A casual chat later (mid 90s?) with my now long gone father revealed that to save me paying The Poll Tax he'd left me off his electoral return claiming not to know where I'd gone, which leaves a gap in my address history for DBS checks of about 4 years from ~1989 to 1993 when I bought my own place and added myself to the electoral roll there (a different again location, so that's 3). Since then I've been scrupulous to do these things myself the right way, where authorities are involved.

FTR I have no criminal convictions and have lived a good decent honest life, misguided parental involvement excepted.

Questions then.

Does the DBS address history check go back that far? The form requires only the last 5 years.

Is it possible to fill in the gaps? All my searches reveal that only 5 years are required on the application and that manual updates were removed due to the volume of errors made on the forms.

Savvy_Sue

I cannot see why / how the address history check could go back more than 5 years, if they only ask for 5 years. 

I think I'd ask the body through whom your check is being processed about this - is it always the same one, or are you being checked by different 'umbrella bodies'? (I have no idea if that is how they are described these days.)