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Welcome to the Certificate for Self Employed People.

• For self employed people: the Certificate will demonstrate to your clients that you are not banned by law from working with children.
• For parents and carers: you can verify that a person you’ve engaged to work with your child is not banned by law from working with children.

Parents and carers should also seek identification, such as a driver's licence, from any self employed person they are engaging to work with children - and make sure that this identification matches with their Certificate.

We have information on getting a certificate and how to verify a certificate, along with fact sheets with everything you need to know about the Certificate for Self Employed People, including replacing a certificate that is lost or damaged, and information for parents.

Click on the certificate thumbnail to see what the certificate looks like.

The legal requirements for the certificate scheme are set out in the Commission for Children and Young People Regulation 2008. Follow this link to view the Regulation, the Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) that pvides the rationale and benefits of the regulations, as well as comments on the Regulation.

You can instantly verify that a Certificate is valid here: