Home Office October 2026 Update

The Home Office laid secondary legislation on 30 June introducing changes to the Right to Rent Scheme, which will mandate the use of a registered digital verification provider (RtR DVSP), when choosing to use their services for these digital checks, expands the services a RtR DVSP can provide and recognises digital documents. The measures will come into force on 1 October 2026.

Alongside this, the following supporting products have now been published: 

Draft Code of Practice: The Right to Rent Scheme for Landlords and their agents

Draft Code of practice Landlords and their Agents- Avoiding unlawful discrimination when conducting ‘right to rent’ checks in the private rented sector

Digital right to work and rent checks for British and Irish citizens: equality impact assessment

Additionally, for information as employers, the Home Office also laid secondary legislation relating to the extension of the Right to Work Scheme to other working arrangements. These supporting documents have been published, and the measures will come into force on 1 October 2026.

Written Ministerial Statement

Consultation on the prevention of illegal working: Extending the Right to Work Scheme to other working arrangements - Results of the public consultation

DRAFT Code of practice on preventing illegal working: Right to Work Scheme for employers

DRAFT Code of practice for employers: Avoiding unlawful discrimination while preventing illegal working

Equality Impact Assessment [EIA] Prevention of illegal working and extension of the prohibition on employment (the Right to Work Scheme) to other working arrangements

Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the team at: 

RighttoRentandRighttoWork@homeoffice.gov.uk.

Home Office October 2026 Update

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