Question: Can childcare settings hire new staff if a DBS check hasn't been completed?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus outbreak
section_headers: Considerations for settings that are open during this period
How can settings continue to offer care if staff are sick or self-isolating?
section_content: Childcare settings who are experiencing staff shortages should work with their
local authority to identify how appropriate provision can be put in place.
They can pool staff with another setting, or take on qualified and Disclosure
and Barring Service (DBS) checked staff from other educational settings
(including local registered childminders) which have been closed, or invite
local registered childminders to work with them at the setting. Registered
childminders can already do this under the 50/50 registration flexibility they
have.
Settings must obtain criminal records checks for new members of staff,
including volunteers. If an application has been made but the DBS disclosure
has not arrived, new staff and volunteers can still care for children as long
they are supervised by someone who has a DBS check. Under no circumstances can
an unchecked member of staff be left alone with children.
*[DBS]: Disclosure and Barring Service

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Explains new staff, under supervision, can still care for children until their DBS is provided.
This answers the question directly. This answer provides information on whether or not a childcare settings can hire new staffs whose DBS check has not been completed and what precautions should be taken under this circumstance.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Excellent

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus outbreak
section_headers: Early Years Foundation Stage
What happens if staff need to renew their paediatric first aid certificates?
section_content: If PFA certificate requalification training is prevented for reasons
associated directly with coronavirus, or by complying with related government
advice, the validity of current certificates can be extended by up to 3
months. This applies to certificates expiring on or after 16 March 2020.
*[PFA]: paediatric first aid

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Context is pediatric first aid and does not reference DBS.
This answer is irrelevant to the question. This answer is about Paediatric First Aid certificate requalification and does not contain any information for childcare settings on hiring new staff whose DBS check has not been completed.

Reviewer ratings:
Bad
Bad

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus outbreak
section_headers: Early Years Foundation Stage
Can settings take on new staff (including volunteers) even if a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check has not been completed?
section_content: The requirements set out at paragraph 3.11 of the EYFS remain in place.
Settings must obtain criminal records checks for new members of staff
including volunteers. If an application has been made but the DBS disclosure
has not arrived, new staff and volunteers can still care for children as long
they are supervised by someone who has a DBS check. Under no circumstances can
an unchecked member of staff be left alone with children.
Where new staff are recruited, or new volunteers enter the childcare setting,
they should continue to be provided with a safeguarding induction.
[EYFS]: early years foundation stage
  [DBS]: Disclosure and Barring Service

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Explains new staff can work if DBS is not currently present but only under certain conditions such as being supervised until the DBS comes through.
This is a direct answer to the question. This answer provides information on whether or not new staff can be hired or take care of children when their DBS check has not been completed and what precautions should be taken by the settings.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Excellent