A Vulnerable Sector Search will be conducted whenever a person applies to work or volunteer with a vulnerable population. According to Express Pardons, vulnerable people include children, the elderly or the disabled. This search is conducted along with a crimianal record background check whenever someone applies to work or volunteer with vulnerable people.
The Vulnerable Sector Search searchs the vulnerable sector database whichs keeps record of all people convicted of sexual offences in Canada. Even if a person receieves a pardon in Canada they will remain on the vulnerable sector database and will turn up during a vulnerable sector search.
