{"id":6585,"date":"2025-05-28T11:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/?p=6585"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:36:43","slug":"vulnerable-sector-check-required-for-ocswssw-registration-starting-october-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/2025\/vulnerable-sector-check-required-for-ocswssw-registration-starting-october-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerable Sector Check Required for OCSWSSW Registration Starting October 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Vulnerable Sector Check Required for OCSWSSW Registration Starting October 1, 2025\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>As of&nbsp;<strong>October 1, 2025<\/strong>, the registration requirements for all new College applicants will include submitting a vulnerable sector check. Including a vulnerable sector check as a registration requirement is an additional tool to safeguard the public from potential harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please note:&nbsp;<\/strong>As this is a new registration requirement, current registrants will&nbsp;<em><strong>not<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;be required to submit a vulnerable sector check. This will apply to all new applications beginning October 1, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocswssw.org\/vulnerable-sector-check\/\">FAQs<\/a> below for more information about this new registration requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"questions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Questions?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact the College\u2019s Registration and Renewals Department:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"mailto:registration@ocswssw.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">registration@ocswssw.org<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>416-972-9882 or 1-877-828-9380 (toll free)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of&nbsp;October 1, 2025, the registration requirements for all new College applicants will include submitting a vulnerable sector check. Including a vulnerable sector check as a registration requirement is an additional tool to safeguard the public from potential harm. Please note:&nbsp;As this is a new registration requirement, current registrants will&nbsp;not&nbsp;be required to submit a vulnerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"announcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6587,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}