Many employers use the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) at the recruitment stage to check whether the prospective employee can undertake ‘regulated activity’.  This may be for work with adults or children in various sectors. 

The ROPS list is a must-read for all UK payroll and pensions professionals. It is updated twice-monthly on the 1st and the 15th of the month, though this will change if those dates fall on a weekend or Bank Holiday. However, sometimes HMRC will update the List at other times ‘to temporarily remove schemes while reviews are carried out, for example where fraudulent activity is suspected’. The ROPS list contains details of all overseas pension schemes that have advised HMRC they want to be included on it. ‘Recognise’ indicates that HMRC recognise the overseas pension scheme as being one that is eligible to receive transfers of UK pension benefits.

With all the happenings in Westminster recently, you can be forgiven for missing the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government 2019/20 on 03 September 2019.