What is regulated activity with children?
Examples of activities with children that are regulated activity (not the full list) include:
- teaching and training (for example teachers, football coaches)
- care and supervision (for example probation officers, childminders)
- advice or guidance (for example careers advisors, Childline advisors)
- health care (for example doctors, nurses)
- personal care (for example assisting with dressing or washing)
- transportation (for example school bus drivers, ambulance drivers)
You may also be in regulated activity if you work or volunteer in certain places, including:
- schools
- childcare premises (for example nurseries, playgroups)
- children’s homes
- children’s hospitals
- children’s detention centres
Regulated activity with adults
There are six categories of activity which are regulated activity with vulnerable adults. They are:
- providing health care
- providing personal care
- providing social work
- helping with general household matters
- helping with the conduct of a person’s own affairs
- conveying
Activity that isn't regulated
Family or personal arrangements, such as looking after a friend’s children for the day, is not regulated activity.
Other activities or situations which are not defined as regulated activity include:
- work with 16 and 17 year olds in a workplace
- work at mixed age sports and leisure facilities
- work with children or vulnerable adults by chance (for example if an adult brings their child to an aerobics class)
- visiting a friend or relative in a children’s home or residential care or nursing home
- work in a shop or leisure facility where children or vulnerable adults might be customers (for example ice cream vans, fairgrounds, holiday camps)
- visiting from overseas with a group - working or caring only for that group