Protection of Vulnerable Groups and Disclosure of Criminal Information: consultation report

The full consultation report on responses to the recent consultation on proposals for change to the disclosure regime in Scotland.


Annex D: Question 22a: Are there any roles / jobs not within the list at Annex B that you think should be subject to mandatory PVG scheme membership? If so, please provide more detail on why.

Among the roles suggested were:
Academy Skills Coach
Acting coach
Acting teacher
Active schools coordinator
Activities Worker
Activity leader
Acupuncturists
Addiction worker
Admin staff and senior managers in registered care service
Admin staff in service with access to sensitive information
Admin staff in small voluntary orgs
Adopters
Adult care establishments
Adult care home worker
Adult day centre staff
Adult hospice worker
Adult learners returning to school
Adult Learning Tutor/coach
Adult placement carer
Adult resident in house of host parent
Adult secure workers
Advice workers; welfare, housing and financial
Advocacy workers
Advocate
Aid Worker
Alternative medicine practitioner
Alternative therapists
Ambassadors
Ambulance care assistant
Apprenticeship managers
Arbiter
Armed forces cadet tutors etc
Art engagement officer
Artists
Arts therapists
Assist instructors
Assistant coaches
Assistant minister
Audiologists

Beauty therapist in care home
Befriender
Befriending co-ordinator
Bereavement listener
Bereavement officer
Bible class worker
Boys’ Brigade captain
Boys’ Brigade Helper
Boys’ Brigade officer
Boys’ Brigade volunteer

Cadet carer
Cadet leaders
Candidate
Care assistant
Care Assistant (in any setting with children or adults with welfare needs)
Care Attendant
Care home owner / manager
Career advisor
Career Advisor – children and/or adults
Carer
Catering staff
Chaperones
Chaplain
Chari supervising regulated work
Charity trustees
Chief executive and board members of a charity
Child care assistant
Child minder / child-minding assistant
Child Protection Coordinator
Child Protection Officer
Child protection officer / safeguarding officer/ wellbeing & protection officer (different names commonly used for the same role)
Child safeguarding officer
Child welfare and protection officer
Child welfare officer
Childcare Worker
Childminder, all persons in their household
Children and pastoral care worker
Children and pastoral visiting worker
Children and young person’s worker
Children’s Activities Worker
Children’s activity worker
Children’s education centre worker
Children’s entertainer
Children’s home workers
Children’s hospice workers
Children’s hospital workers
Children’s Nursery Assistant
Children’s Nursery Manager
Children’s Nursery Nurse
Children’s Nursery Worker
Children’s secure accommodation workers
Children’s television presenters and other staff on children’s programmes
Children’s ward workers
Children’s worker
Children’s: care worker, club leader, club worker, holiday club helper, or summer mission coordinator
Children’s officer
Chiropodist
Church Organist (but only if their job remit specifies that they work with children and protected adults)
Church Organist (but only if their job remit specifies that they work with children)
Classroom Assistant
Cleaners and care takers
Cleaning staff in care homes
Cleaning staff in leisure centres
Club child protection officer
Club coach
Club committee members
Club development coordinator (supervise regulated work)
Club helper
Club safeguarding / welfare officer
Coach
Coach (assistant)
Coach and public service vehicle drivers
Coaches including fitness instructors
Coastguard
Communications officers visiting vulnerable adults in their own homes
Community based trainer
Community care worker
Community centre volunteer
Community centre volunteer for children, or adults with disability or illness
Community development co-ordinator
Community development worker
Community Education Worker
Community first respondents
Community learning and development assistant
Community learning and development worker
Community outreach volunteer or coordinator
Community trainer
Community workers
Computer coding teacher
Congregational Children’s Worker
Congregational Coordinator
Congregational Youth Worker
Consultant
Costume fitter
Counselling support worker
Counsellor
Counsellor – trauma
Counsellor (Domestic Abuse)
Counsellor (Hospice)
Counsellor (individuals with “serious” illness)
Counsellor (Life limiting illness/disability)
Counsellor (Mental Health)
Counsellor (Pregnancy)
Counsellor depression anxiety
Counsellors
Counsellors: sexual abuse, family planning, learning disabilities, physical disabilities
Crèche and Sunday school worker
Crèche helper or worker
Crèche helper youth worker
Crèche manager
Crèche Nursery Assistant
Crèche Nursery Nurse
Crèche Nursery Worker
Crèche worker and pastoral care worker
Crèches in shopping centres etc
Criminal justice officer

Dance coach
Dance teacher
Dance therapist
Day Carer in any setting with children or adults with illness or disability
Day‑carer for children
Deacon
Dental Hygienist
Dental Nurse
Dental support worker
Dentist
Development manager
Development Officer
Development worker
Diagnostic radiographers
Dietetics
Dieticians
Director of Dance
Director of Music
Directors / chief executives for children’s and / or adults’ services
Directors of registered care services
Disability advice worker
Dispensing optician
Doctor
Domestic staff
Drama therapist
Driver
Driver - Sole Charge of Children
Driver counsellor
Drivers at sport events
Drivers for sport activities
Driving instructor
Drug and alcohol officer

Early Years Manager
Early Years Officer
Early Years Practitioner
Early Years Worker
Education centre governors
Education centre worker
Education Practitioner
Educational establishment worker
Elder
Elected member of committees for children / adult care and health services
Emergency Responder
Emerging ministries worker
Employability service officer
Equipment support staff
Escort

Faith community janitor
Faith leader
Faith/Religious officer
Family mediation officer
Family Support Co-Ordinator
Family support worker
FE college support role
FE lecturers
Firemen
First aiders
First respondents
Fitness assessor
Fitness instructor
Fitness trainer
Food bank workers
Foster carers
Freelance coach

Gallery assistants
Girls’ Brigade Auxiliary Helper
Girls’ Brigade Helper
Girls’ Brigade Leader
Girls’ Brigade Officer
Girls’ Brigade Worker
Godparents
Ground staff
Guide leaders
Gym assistant
Gym instructors

Hairdresser in care home
Head of services for children
Head of volunteering
Health link worker
Health professional trainees
Healthcare support workers/Auxiliaries
Hearing aid dispenser
Helper in dementia club
Helpline advisor
High Performance Manager - Supervising regulated work
Holiday play staff
Home carers
Home support worker
Home visitors
Hospice chaplain
Hospice housekeeper
Hospital and nursing home visitor
Hospital chaplain
Hospital managers in clinical areas
Hospital porter
Host Family (Parent)
Host parent
Housekeeping staff for children
Housing officer
Housing support establishment officer
Housing support officer
Housing technical staff

Independent coach
Instructor
International rescue corps
Interpreters for children, or adults with disability or illness
Interpreters in any setting
Investigating officers
Invigilator

Janitors
Junior choir leader
Junior leaders

Kinship carer
Kit man
Kit person

Land Trainer - Teaching children
Language school teachers
Learning and development officers
Lecturers
Leisure attendant
Leisure attendant in school
Leisure attendant in sport facility
Leisure centre workers accessing changing areas
Librarians
Life assistants
Lifeguard
Lifestyle coach
Listener (for counselling service)
Locality worker
Locum Minister

Manager / Supervisor - Where they manage /supervise those undertaking regulated work
Managers / trustees of education centres
Managers in social care setting
Masseuse
Medical Doctor
Medical Nurse
Medical photographer
Medical practitioner
Meet Manager - Supervising regulated work
Member of host family e.g. adult living in the same household as host parent
Mentor
Midwife
Military charities
Minister
Minister of Word and Sacrament
Minister of Word and Sacrament - Locum
Ministers of religion
Ministries Candidate
Ministries Reader
Modern apprentice
Monitoring officer
Mountain rescue
Music teacher
Music therapists
Musician working with children

Nurse
Nursery Assistant
Nursery Manager
Nursery practitioner
Nursery worker
Nursing associate

Occupational Therapist
Occupational therapy support worker
Operating department practitioner
Operational manager for children’s and / or adults’ services
Ophthalmic optician
Organist youth worker
Orthoptist
Osteopaths
Out of school care staff and managers
Outdoor play ranger
Outdoor sport and recreation activity instructors
Outreach workers

Paramedic/ambulance technician
Parent and toddlers group workers
Parent helper
Parent helper / chaperon - used on trips, competitions and overnights
Parent helper at school clubs and outings
Parent in host family
Parent volunteer
Parish development worker
Parish safeguarding co-ordinator
Parish worker
Passenger assistant on minibus
Pastor
Pastoral Care assistant
Pastoral care worker/holiday club helper
Pastoral care worker/Sunday school
Pastoral Care Worker/Visitor
Pastoral carer
Pastoral Support
Pastoral worker
Pastors and priests
Pathologist
Patient driver
Peer Worker
Peer worker for children, or adults with disability or illness
People in position of trust
Performance coach
Peripatetic music instructors
Person living on site of regulated establishment
Personal carer
Personal trainer
Pharmacy advisor
Pharmacy support person
Phlebotomists
Physician assistant
Physician associates
Physiologist
Physiotherapist
Placement carer
Play leader
Play scheme Worker
Play workers
Play workers at holiday centres
Playgroup Manager
Playgroup Worker
Playroom Worker
Podiatrist
Police constables
Pool Side Helper/assistant - Supervising children
Poolside Worker
Pregnancy advisor
Pre-school staff
President supervising regulated work
President/Chair - Supervising Regulated Work
Priest
Prison officers
Project manager for children’s and / or adults’ services
Prosthetist
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist

Radiographer
Ranger
Reader
Recreational instructor
Referee
Reflexologists
Registered Chiropractor
Registered Osteopath
Registered Pharmacist
Registered Pharmacy Technician
Registered Social Service Worker
Registered Social worker
Reporter of officers appointed under section 8(5) of the Local Government etc
Researchers
Residential education centre worker

Sacro-cranial therapists
Safeguarding advisor
Safeguarding Coordinator
Samaritan volunteer
School chaplain
School Coordinator
School crossing patroller
School escorts
School hostel worker
School janitor
School workers
Schools governors and trustees
Scientist giving patient care
Scout and guide leaders and helpers
Search and rescue volunteers
Self‑employed music instructors
Self-employed tutors: music, sports and the arts
Seminarian
Sensitive information researcher
Service co-ordinator for adults with disability / illness
Service co-ordinator for children
Service managers
Shared lives carer
Social care worker
Social work assistant
Social work team manager
Social Worker
Social worker officer
Soft play workers
Speech and language therapists
Speech Therapist
Spiritual care
Sport and leisure worker
Sport club chair
Sport club co-ordinator
Sport coaches
Sport scout
Sport therapists
Sports & Leisure attendants
Sports Agents
Sports Coach for children, or adults with disability or illness
Sports co-ordinator
Sports development manager
Sports development officer
Sports leader
Sports scientist
Sports Scout
Staff in hospital patient areas
Staff in juvenile detention units
Staff in outdoor residential establishments
Staff in residential facilities for any vulnerable group
Staff in school environment
Strategic directors of children’s and / or adults’ services
Student finance
Student minister
Student training for profession
Summer club leader
Summer Sunday school worker
Sunday club worker
Sunday school helper
Sunday school officer
Sunday school teachers and crèche staff
Sunday school worker and pastoral care driver
Sunday school: assistant, helper, leader, teacher, worker, or volunteer
Support for learning staff
Support volunteers
Support worker for children, or adults with disability or illness
Support workers
Surgeon
Swimming Teacher

Taxi drivers
Teacher
Team manager (supervise children)
Team Manager / coordinator - Supervising children
Technical or match officials, judges, score/time keepers
Technicians helping people to live day-to-day in their own home
Telephone / Online Support Worker - Childline and the Samaritans
Therapeutic radiographer
Therapist
Trade roles in local authorities who work routinely in schools and residential homes
Training Support Worker
Translators
Transport attendant
Transport escorts
Transport of children officer
Transport of patients officer
Transport of School children officer
Trustees of SCIOs
Tutor (children and protected adults in college settings)
Tutors

Uniformed organisation workers

Videographer
Voice coach
Volunteer befriender
Volunteer car drivers
Volunteer co-ordinator
Volunteer manager
Volunteer mentor
Volunteer with children, or adults with disability or illness
Volunteer with frail old people
Volunteering development officer
Volunteers visiting the sick at home
Volunteers working with youth groups

Welfare and benefit officers
Women’s aid counsellor
Workers in patient treatment areas of hospitals
Workers on addictions

Young leader
Youth activities leader
Youth activities worker
Youth club volunteer
Youth Development Officer
Youth Development Worker
Youth fellowship helper
Youth helper
Youth photographer
Youth volunteer
Youth work leader
Youth worker and pastoral care worker
Youth workers

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