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What is Checked

The Working with Children(WWC) Check involves:

1. a national police records check
2. a review of findings by specified professional disciplinary bodies (currently the Victorian Institute of Teaching and the out of home carers Suitability Panel. Other professional bodies will be included in the future).
3. consideration of any relevant determination by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal under the Health Professions Registration Act 2005.

Broadly, the criminal offences of most significance for a WWC Check are:

• serious sexual offences
• serious violent offences
• serious drug-related offences
• offences against the Working With Children Act 2005 itself.

The national police records check may reveal criminal history information held by police in Victoria and other States and Territories. Further information can also be sought from other bodies, such as the courts, Corrections Victoria, the Department of Human Services and employers. This information can include circumstances where a court has:

• made a formal finding of guilt in relation to an offence
• convicted you of an offence
• accepted a plea of guilt from you
• acquitted you of an offence because of mental impairment.

It can also include information about:

• any spent convictions you have
• convictions and findings of guilt from when you were a child (aged under 18)
• any charges which are pending against you
• the circumstances surrounding any of these charges or convictions.