If you work with children, you may be in regulated activity.
Key rule:
If the role involves regulated activity with children, you must request an Enhanced DBS check with Children’s Barred List
Children are:
People under 18, unless the activity relates solely to their employment
Examples of regulated activity that may only need to be done once:
Healthcare
Personal care
Social work
Foster care
Childminding
Childcare provision
Day‑to‑day management of someone providing regulated activity
Other activities become regulated if they are done regularly (at least once a week or three or more times in 30 days):
Teaching, training, instructing, mentoring, coaching, caring for or supervising children
Providing advice or guidance about educational, emotional or physical well‑being
Moderating a web service for children
Driving a vehicle for children
In some cases, simply working in a specified establishment (e.g. schools, children’s homes) regularly, with the opportunity to have contact, can also be regulated activity.
If a person is on the Children’s Barred List, they must not do any regulated activity with children, and it is a criminal offence to employ them in such a role.