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On 1 September 2026, the law about regulated activity with children in England and Wales changed. The supervision exemption for regulated activity with children has been removed.
This means some people will be in regulated activity with children after 1 September 2026 when they were not before, because they were sufficiently supervised by someone else.
This may apply to staff or volunteers who do the following work often enough (three times or more in 30 days) with children: delivering teaching, training, caring for or supervising them. Examples include youth work, sports coaching and outdoor activities.
This change affects any organisation in England and Wales with paid staff or volunteers who teach, train, instruct, care for, or supervise children. It affects people who were not in regulated activity with children specifically because someone else carrying out regulated activity with children supervised them to a sufficient level. This includes, but is not restricted to circumstances involving:
- people who work or volunteer with children in outdoor activity centres, youth groups, charities or community groups, and are supervised by someone else who is in regulated activity with children
- people who volunteer in schools, such as reading helpers who are supervised by a teacher.