While it’s not possible to provide a definitive list of all regulated roles, as roles and responsibilities can change, there are some roles which will clearly fall into this category, and they are listed by sector below
Please note: the list is not exhaustive and remember that the prime requirement for a role to be considered regulated is that it involves contact with children or protected adults.
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Additions to the list of regulated roles
Care
Regulated role where there is contact with children or protected adults
- Careers advisor
- 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
- Registered Social Service Worker
- Registered Social worker
- Support worker
Regulated role where there is 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
- Nursery or day care worker or volunteer
- 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
Education
Regulated role where there is contact with children or protected adults
- Teacher
Regulated role where there is contact with children only
- Active schools coordinator
- Classroom assistant
- Nursery worker or volunteer
- Support for learning staff
- Other school-based worker of volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
Healthcare
Regulated role where there is contact with children or protected adults
- Arts therapists
- Chiropodist
- Dental hygienist
- Dentist
- Dispensing optometrist
- Healthcare support workers/Auxiliaries
- Hearing aid dispenser
- Hospital worker or volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
- Medical/Dental nurse
- Medical doctor
- Midwife
- Occupational therapist
- Ophthalmic optometrist
- Orthoptist
- Paramedic/ambulance technician
- Physiotherapist
- Podiatrist
- Prosthetist
- Psychologist
- Radiographer
- Registered Chiropractor
- Registered Osteopath
- Registered Pharmacist
- Registered Pharmacy Technician
- Social worker
- Speech therapist
- Sport therapists
Regulated role where there is contact with children only
- Children’s hospice workers or volunteers
- Children’s hospital workers or volunteers
- Children’s ward workers or volunteers
Sport
Regulated role where there is contact with children or protected adults
- Academy skills coach
- Adult learning tutor or coach
- Assistant coaches
- Outdoor sport and recreation activity instructors
- Sports coach
Regulated role where there is contact with children only
- Sports or talent agents
- Sports or talent scout
Other
Regulated role where there is contact with children or protected adults
- Chief social worker of a local authority
- Elected members (local authorities) where they hold a position of a full or designated substitute member of a committee (or sub committee) concerned with either education, accommodation, social services or healthcare provision
- Student training for a profession whose members are in regulated roles
Regulated role where there is contact with children only
- Chief education officer of a local authority
- Commissioner for children and young people in Scotland
- Members of the Children’s Panel, Children’s Hearings Scotland and the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration
- Principal Reporter
- Reporter of officers appointed under section 8(5) of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 to assist that officer
How to check if a role needs PVG scheme membership
You can use the tool on mygov.scot to check if a role needs PVG scheme membership.
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