Childcare Disqualification Declaration

What are the Regulations?

The Department for Education (DfE) has issued a number of recent updates to its Statutory Guidance “Keeping Children Safe in Education”.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disqualification-under-the-childcare-act-2006

This update requires schools which provide care for pupils under the age of 8, therefore all primary schools and nurseries and some qualifying staff in secondary schools. This is to ensure that staff and volunteers working in these settings are not disqualified from doing so under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.

Reference: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1547/schedule/3/made

A person may be disqualified through:

1. Having certain orders or other restrictions placed upon them.

2. Having committed certain offences.

3. Living in the same household as someone who is disqualified by virtue of 1 or 2 above (this is known as disqualification by association).

You are required therefore to sign the declaration below confirming that you are not disqualified under those Regulations from working in this school.

A disqualified person is not permitted to continue to work in a setting providing care for children under age 8, unless they apply for and are granted a waiver from OFSTED.

Reference: http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/applying-waive-disqualification-early-years-and-childcareproviders. Support will be provided with this process.

Name:*

Position*

Section 1 – Orders or other restrictions

Have any orders or other determinations related to childcare been made in respect of you?*

Yes
No

Have any orders or other determinations related to childcare been made in respect of a child in your care?*

Yes
No

Are you barred from working with Children (Disclosure and Barring (DBS) ?*

Yes
No

Are you prohibited from Teaching?*

Yes
No

Section 2 – Specified and Statutory Offences

Have you ever been cautioned, reprimanded, given a warning for or convicted of:

Any offence against or involving a child? (a child is a person under the age of 18)*

Yes
No

Any violent or sexual offence against an adult?*

Yes
No

Any offence under the Sexual Offences Act?*

Yes
No

Any other relevant offence?*

Yes
No

Available from the school office or at the links below:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1547/schedule/2/made

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1547/schedule/3/made

Have you ever been cautioned, reprimanded, given a warning for or convicted of any similar offence in another country?*

Yes
No

Section 3 – Disqualification by association

To the best of your knowledge, is anyone in your household* disqualified from working with children under the Regulations? *household – includes family, lodgers, house-sharers, household employees

This means does anyone in your household have an Order or Restriction against them as set out in Section 1 or have they been cautioned, reprimanded, given a warning for or convicted of any offence in Section 2.*

Yes
No

Guidance of whether a conviction is spent can be found: www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Section 4 – Provision of Information

If you have answered YES to any of the questions above you should provide details below in respect of yourself, or where relevant the member of your household. You may supply this information separately if you so wish, but you must do so without delay.

Details of the order, restriction, conviction caution etc.

The date(s) of these

The relevant court(s) or body(ies)

You should also provide a copy of the relevant order, caution, conviction etc. In relation to cautions/convictions a DBS Certificate may be provided.

Section 4 - Declaration

In signing this form, I confirm that the information provided is true to the best of my knowledge and that:

I understand my responsibilities to safeguard children.
I understand that I must notify Destination Education and/or Headteacher immediately of anything that affects my suitability including any cautions, warnings, convictions, orders or other determinations made in respect of me or a member of my household that would render me disqualified from working with children.
I understand that I must notify Destination Education and/or Headteacher immediately if there are any changes or additions to the information I have supplied on the form that may occur in the future.

Name*

First Last

Signature