ment committees of PRUs may choose appropriate training and may take advice from the safeguarding partners in doing so. Advert 214. Schools and colleges should think about including the following information when defining the role (through the job or role description and person specification): • the skills, abilities, experience, attitude, and behaviours required for the post, and • the safeguarding requirements, i.e. to what extent will the role involve contact with children and will they be engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. See page 67 for further information about regulated activity. 215. The advert should include: • the school or college’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and make clear that safeguarding checks will be undertaken • the safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification, and • whether the post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. Application forms 216. Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, schools and colleges should include a statement in the application form or elsewhere in the information provide