Children's Barred List: eligibility guide

Step 1: Is the role regulated activity with children?

• Teaching, training, caring or supervising. Usually qualifies when it happens more than 3 days in 30 days, or overnight between 2am and 6am with face-to-face contact.
• Advice or guidance. Qualifies at that frequency when mainly concerned with a child's education, emotional or physical wellbeing.
• Moderating a children's web service. Qualifies when done more than 3 days in 30 days.
• Driving solely for children. Qualifies when done more than 3 days in 30 days.
• Healthcare or personal care. A single occasion can count as regulated activity.
• Foster carers and childminders. Registration automatically qualifies.

Specified establishments

A role at a school, nursery, children's home or children's detention centre may qualify if it is carried out more than 3 days in 30 days, or overnight, and gives the person an opportunity for contact with children.

Step 2: Consider frequency

Check whether the work meets the more-than-3-days-in-30-days or overnight frequency conditions.

Step 3: Management and supervision

A person who manages or supervises someone else carrying out regulated activity is also carrying out regulated activity.

Step 4: Review changes

If the role or its duties change, recheck its eligibility using current government guidance.

Quick reference checklist

• Does the role involve working directly with children?
• Are the activities frequent or do they involve overnight stays?
• Is the work at a specified establishment such as a school or children's home?
• Does the supervision meet the guidance?

Official guidance

If the relevant answers are yes, the role is likely to require an Enhanced DBS check with the Children's Barred List.