From 1 September 2026, the supervision exemption for regulated activity with children is removed. 

This change affects any organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland with paid staff or volunteers who teach, train, instruct, care for, or supervise children. 

If a person teaches, trains, instructs, cares for or supervises children often enough, they will be in regulated activity with children even if someone else supervises them. This means an organisation will be able to ask for an Enhanced DBS check in the child workforce with a Children’s Barred List check. 

 Find out what this means for your organisation. 

Read more on the link below Change to the definition of regulated activity with children from 1 September 2026 – GOV.UK