Care

This list is not exhaustive. You still need to have contact with children or protected adults to meet the criteria for a regulated role.

Regulated role if contact with children or protected adults

  • Careers advisor
  • Community care assistant/worker
  • Driver: Transport of patients or school children (as part of a contractual arrangement with a health body, local authority or independent school). Transport of children, or adults with disability or illness
  • Foster carer
  • Kinship carer
  • Registered Social Service Worker
  • Registered Social worker
  • Support worker

Regulated role if contact with children only

  • Children’s hospice worker or volunteer
  • Child minder/child-minding assistant
  • Children’s home workers or volunteers
  • Children’s secure accommodation workers or volunteers
  • Early learning and childcare practitioner/assistant
  • Early years practitioner/assistant
  • Nanny
  • Nursery or day care worker or volunteer
  • Play worker
  • Youth worker or volunteer

Regulated role if contact with protected adults only

  • Adult care home worker or volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
  • Adult day care centre worker or volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
  • Adult hospice worker or volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
  • Adult placement service worker or volunteer
  • Care assistant
  • Care home owner/manager
  • Carer/personal carer
  • Placement Carer
  • Shared lives carer
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