110 CMR 18.00 applies to:
(a) applicants for positions, including employment, trainee, volunteer or intern, which entail potential un-supervised client contact in the Department and/or Department funded vendor agency programs that pro-vide people with Department services;(b) persons seeking to apply to become foster/pre-adoptive parents, foster/pre-adoptive parent applicants and foster/pre-adoptive parents for Department and any vendor agency providing foster or adoptive services for the Department;(c) candidates for positions in the Department, including employment, trainee, volunteer or intern, which do not entail the potential for unsupervised client contact; and(d) At the discretion of the Department vendor agency programs, the scope of 110 CMR 18.00 may be expanded to include volunteers, interns, students or other persons regularly offering support to any program or facility in either a paid or unpaid capacity whose services do not entail the potential for unsupervised client contact.