As there have been changes to this legislation under the Childcare Act 2006, it seems that employees are only required to self-declare that they are not disqualified under the Act and are no longer required to notify Schools about the cautions or convictions of someone living or working in their household. 

I would be interested to know how other schools obtain this information, particularly with regard to changes in circumstances.  We usually cover this initially during the recruitment process by asking individuals to declare convictions on their application forms and we used to send out a form each year to all employees asking for information relating to convictions regarding others living within the household.  I am not sure whether we are still able to send out forms just for the self-declaration and am sure I have read somewhere that a form is no longer required.

Also, do other schools ask ALL staff to self-declare or are there roles within schools not covered by the legislation as we used to ask ALL staff to complete a Disqualification by Association form and I'm not sure that this is correct.

Any information/advice would be welcome.  Thank you.