{"id":20200,"date":"2026-07-16T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=20200"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:05:37","slug":"working-or-volunteering-in-regulated-activity-with-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/working-or-volunteering-in-regulated-activity-with-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Working or volunteering in regulated activity with children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the Crime and Policing Act 2026, there is a change to regulated activity which will come into force in September 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The change affects settings which rely on volunteers. This is because of the removal of the supervision exemption.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 September 2026, all volunteers engaging in regulated activity will need an enhanced DBS check with children\u2019s barred list information. This also applies to holiday clubs and wraparound care.<\/p>\n<p>Providers should read the full guidance here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/working-or-volunteering-in-regulated-activity-with-children\/regulated-activity-removal-of-the-supervision-exemption-comes-into-force-1-september-2026\" rel=\"noopener\">Regulated activity: removal of the supervision exemption (comes into force 1 September 2026) &#8211; GOV.UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the Crime and Policing Act 2026, there is a change to regulated activity which will come into force in September 2026. The change affects settings which rely on volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 15:03:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20202,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200\/revisions\/20202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}