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PVG Information
PROTECTING VULNERABLE GROUPS SCHEME
Support with pvg applications
Unfortunately, Caithness Voluntary Group no longer provides direct support with PVG applications.
Support is however, available from Volunteer Scotland Disclosure Services. Please click the button below to find out more about what they can offer.
What is the PVG Scheme and do I need it?
What is the PVG SCheme?
The Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme is a membership scheme for people working with children or protected adults.
Why might I need this?
It's a legal requirement to join the scheme if you're carrying out a regulated role with these groups.
How do I know if I need this?
Use the button below to check to see if the role you are enquiring about requires a PVG.
The tool should only be used as a guide. It’s to help you determine if a role needs PVG scheme membership. If you're still unsure, contact Disclosure Scotland.
What are regulated roles?
If a role is regulated, the person carrying it out needs PVG scheme membership; however, It is not possible to give a complete list of regulated roles, because roles change.
There are some roles where it is clear it is regulated though. These are set out in the lists below.
These lists are not exhaustive. You still need to have contact with children or protected adults to meet the criteria for a regulated role.
Regulated Roles
care
education
education
- Careers advisor
- Community care assistant/worker
- Driver: Transport of patients or school children (as part of a contractual arrangement with a health body, local authority or independent school). Transport of children, or adults with disability or illness
- Foster carer
- Kinship carer
- Registered Social Service Worker
- Registered Social worker
- Support worker
- Children’s hospice worker or volunteer
- Child minder/child-minding assistant
- Children’s home workers or volunteers
- Children’s secure accommodation workers or volunteers
- Early learning and childcare practitioner/assistant
- Early years practitioner/assistant
- Nanny
- Nursery or day care worker or volunteer
- Play worker
- Youth worker or volunteer
- Adult care home worker or volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
- Adult day care centre worker or volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
- Adult hospice worker or volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
- Adult placement service worker or volunteer
- Care assistant
- Care home owner/manager
- Carer/personal carer
- Placement Carer
- Shared lives carer
education
education
education
- Teacher
- Active schools coordinator
- Additional support needs assistant
- Classroom assistant
- College lecturer
- Educational psychologist
- Invigilator
- Nursery worker or volunteer
- Pupil support assistant/worker
- School bus driver
- School bus escort
- School crossing patroller
- School catering assistant (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
- School facilities assistant (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
- Support for learning staff
- Other school-based worker or volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact)
Health
education
Health
- Anaesthesiologist
- Arts therapists
- Audiologist
- Cardiologist
- Catering assistant in a hospital or hospice (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact as part of their role)
- Chiropodist
- Chiropractor
- Clinical assessor
- Clinical fellow
- Clinical technologist
- Dietician
- Domestic in a hospital or hospice
- Community first responder
- Dental hygienist
- Dentist
- Facilities assistant
- Healthcare support workers/Auxiliaries
- Hearing aid dispenser
- Hospice worker or volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact as part of their role)
- Hospital worker or volunteer (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact as part of their role)
- Laundry assistant in a hospital or hospice (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact as part of their role)
- Maintenance/Technical officer in a hospital or hospice (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact as part of their role)
- Medical/Dental nurse
- Medical doctor
- Medical secretary (hospital/hospice/ward)
- Midwife
- Music therapist
- Occupational therapist
- Ophthalmic optometrist
- Optometrist or dispensing optician
- Orthodontist
- Orthoptist
- Orthotist
- Osteopath
- Paramedic/ambulance technician
- Pharmacist
- Pharmacy technician
- Phlebotomist
- Physician associate
- Physiotherapist
- Podiatrist
- Porter (hospital/hospice)
- Prosthetist
- Psychologist
- Radiographer
- Reflexologist
- Regen assistant/Regeneration assistant in a hospital or hospice
- Social worker
- Sonographer
- Speech therapist
- Sport therapists
- Support services assistant (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact as part of their role)
- Venepuncturist
- Ward administrator (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact as part of their role)
- Ward clerk (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact as part of their role)
- Ward secretary (must have opportunity for unsupervised contact as part of their role)
- Children’s hospice workers or volunteers
- Children’s hospital workers or volunteers
- Children’s ward workers or volunteers
sports
sports
Health
- Academy skills coach
- Assistant coach
- First aider
- Outdoor sport and recreation activity instructor
- Sports coach
- Sports or talent agent
- Sports or talent scout
other
sports
other
- Casualty care volunteer
- Charity trustee (where organisation has one of its main purposes to provide benefits to children or protected adults)
- Chief social worker of a local authority
- Driving instructor
- Elected members (local authorities) where they hold a position of a full or designated substitute member of a committee (or sub committee) concerned with either education, accommodation, social services or healthcare provision
- Lifeguard
- Pastoral carer
- Student training for a profession whose members are in regulated roles
- Cadet forces instructor
- Chaperone
- Chief education officer of a local authority
- Commissioner for children and young people in Scotland
- Congregational children’s worker
- Counsellor
- Duke of Edinburgh helper or volunteer
- Members of the Children’s Panel, Children’s Hearings Scotland and the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration
- Play worker
- Principal Reporter
- Reporter of officers appointed under section 8(5) of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 to assist that officer
- Sunday school teacher