Regulated activity includes anyone who works or volunteers in the following settings on a frequent or intensive basis and whose work brings them into contact with children and vulnerable adults
Such places would include:
- Schools
- Childcare Premises
- Residential Homes
- Children's Hospitals
- Childrens' detention centres
- Childrens' centres
- Adult care homes
Regulated activity includes any form of work (paid or voluntary) carried out for a setting or establishment specified in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act which is on a frequent or intensive basis and which provides an opportunity for contact with children or vulnerable adults. This may include catering, cleaning, administrative and maintenance staff if they work once a week or more or four days in a single month or overnight.
Specified settings are limited to:
- Schools (educational institutions exclusively or mainly for the provision of full-time education to under-18s)
- Pupil referral units
- Childcare premises (including nurseries)
- Residential homes for children in care
- Children’s hospitals (hospitals exclusively or mainly for the reception and treatment of children)
- Children’s detention centres (institutions exclusively or mainly for the detention of children)
- Children’s centres in England and Wales, and
- Adult care homes (residential care or nursing homes in Northern Ireland).
Work in any of the specified settings is regulated activity if it is done frequently or intensively. However, contractors who visit for example, different care homes, children’s hospitals or schools will not meet the frequent or intensive tests if they visit several different specified settings but do not work frequently in the same one
- frequent means once a week or more
- intensive means four times in a month or overnight
- and both now have to be in the same establishment
Posts include departments such as catering, cleaning, administrative and maintenance workers or contractors and their managers or supervisors.
