Changes to the DBS regulations start from Tuesday 1 September 2026

The law about regulated activity with children in England and Wales is changing. The current rule about the supervision of paid staff and volunteers carrying out specific activities with children will be removed from the legal definition.  

This means some people will be in regulated activity with children from 1 September 2026 when they were not before, because they were sufficiently supervised by someone else. This will apply if they do the work often enough, or overnight.

Regulated activity is work that a barred person must not do. It is against the law for:

• a barred person to engage in regulated activity;

• someone to allow a barred person to do regulated activity

This change only impacts regulated activity with children. No change is being made to the definition of regulated activity with adults.

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