Pick your sector, tick what you already collect, and see what a standard starter set for that sector contains that your list does not — and which of the ones you do hold will lapse while you are not looking.
- Nothing is uploaded. No certificate, no CV, no candidate. You tick a list; that is the whole input.
- We never tell you what the law requires. This compares your list to a starting point. It is not advice, and it does not pretend to be.
- UK and US. The sets are not translations of each other, so we ask which rather than guessing.
Comparing your list…
iThis compares your list against a starter set for that sector — the same set an administrator applies inside ATS Engine and then edits. It is not a statement of what the law requires of you, and it is not a substitute for the framework you are actually audited against.
iThat is one gap of . It is the heaviest in the set, by how much work it implies — not by any ranking of which check matters more in law.
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Collecting a document once is not the same as holding it. These are the ones that go out of date on their own, and they are the reason a file that was complete in March is not complete now.
WHAT YOUR SECTOR CHECKS, AND WHAT YOUR LIST IS MISSING.
WHAT IT MEANS
- Nobody loses a compliance file all at once.They lose it one expiry at a time.The file was complete when the candidate was registeredRead more →
- Knowing the gap is the easy half. Closing it every week is the other one.A list is a snapshotRead more →
- The questions agencies send us about this page.Read more →
Nobody loses a compliance file all at once.
They lose it one expiry at a time.
The file was complete when the candidate was registered. That is the problem — it was complete once, and nothing in a spreadsheet tells you the day it stopped being.
The gap you find at audit is never the one you were watching
Everybody watches the big check. It is the undated one nobody thought about — a reference that was never chased, a consent that was never recorded — that turns up in the sample the auditor pulls.
A re-check is not an expiry
Some documents run out on a printed date. Others stay valid and want looking at again on a cadence — and those are worse, because nothing about the document itself ever changes to tell you.
Two countries is two sets, not one set translated
Britain has national schemes a list can be built to. The United States has a federal floor and then fifty states — and for an agency the rules follow the state of the assignment, not the state of the office.
Knowing the gap is the easy half. Closing it every week is the other one.
A list is a snapshot. ATS Engine is what keeps it true — the documents chase themselves, the dates are watched, and you find out before the assignment rather than after it.
Every type carries its own clock
Expiry where there is a date, a re-check cadence where there is not, and a reminder before either lands — per candidate, per sector, per country. Nobody has to remember which of the two a given document is.
The document types are yours, not ours
The starter set is a starting point. Apply it, then rename, add, remove and re-date anything you like — a multi-sector desk can apply three sets and keep all of them. Nothing here gates a placement unless you say it does.
Find the gap now. Keep it closed after that.
Fourteen days free — the whole product, not a cut-down version of it. No card to start and nothing to cancel. On day fifteen the account becomes Free and everything you built stays in it.
The questions agencies send us about this page.
Is this telling me what I am legally required to collect?
No, and the distinction is the whole reason this page is worded the way it is. What you get back is a comparison between the list you ticked and a starter set for that sector — the same set an administrator applies inside ATS Engine and then edits to fit their own framework. It is not a statement of the law, it is not advice, and it is not a substitute for whatever you are actually audited against. A list that looks authoritative and is slightly wrong is worse than no list, because somebody trusts it instead of their own framework.
Where did the sets come from?
The categories follow the published NHS employment check standards closely for healthcare — identity, right to work, criminal record, work health, professional registration and qualifications, employment history and references — and the same shape is carried across the other seven sectors. They were built with a compliance manager who runs these desks, not assembled from search results. They are still a starting point, and every one of them is editable the moment it is applied.
Do I have to upload anything?
No, and you cannot. There is no upload on this page at all. Nobody can genuinely verify a real DBS certificate or an I-9 from a PDF, and a tool that implied it could would be a liability on exactly the checks that decide whether a person works with patients or with children. You tick a list; that is the entire input.
What do you keep?
The sector, the country, and the fact that a check was run — enough to stop the free tool being scripted, and nothing that identifies anybody. We do not keep the tick list. Which documents an agency admits it does not collect is the most sensitive thing anyone will type into any of our free tools, and a stored copy of it would be a standing invitation to do something with it later. The result lives in a cache for thirty minutes and then it is gone.
My desk covers two sectors. Which do I pick?
Run it twice — that is what the two free checks a day are for. Inside the product you would apply both sets and end up with one combined list, deliberately unfiltered: hiding half a multi-sector desk’s requirements behind a sector filter is worse than showing all of them.
Stop finding out on the Monday that a check expired on the Friday.
Fourteen days of the whole desk, no card. Your document types, your dates, your sectors.