The Working with Children Check card becomes the Assessment Notice
Up until 1 December 2010, when an applicant passed the Working with Children (WWC) Check, the Working with Children Regulations 2006 required the Department of Justice to issue the successful applicant with an A4-style Assessment Notice. About 2 weeks after sending out this document successful applicants were sent their WWC Check card.
A recent amendment to the Working with Children Regulations 2006 means that after 1 December 2010 the Assessment Notice becomes the WWC Check card. Subsequently the Department of Justice will only send people who pass the Check the card and not the A4-style Assessment Notice.
After 1 December 2010 cardholders can show employers and organisations who engage them in ‘child-related work’, the card itself, as it is legal proof that they have passed the Check.
After 1 December 2010 employers, volunteer organisations and agencies will continue to receive from the department a copy of the Assessment Notice of their employees or volunteers who have passed the Check. However, this will be an official copy of the front and back of the person’s card.
It is very important that organisations and employers file this document in a safe, secure place and record the key details contained on the person’s card. These details include the:
- expiry date
- official card number
- type of card i.e. ‘Volunteer or ‘Employee’ card as cardholders are not permitted to undertake, and employers are not permitted to engage, a person in paid ‘child-related work’ on a ‘Volunteer’ card.
Contacts
Working with Children Check Unit
Department of Justice
GPO Box 1915
Melbourne VIC 3001
Information Line: 1300 652 879
Hours of operation are 8:30am - 5pm weekdays (excluding public holidays)
If you need an interpreter please call the Translating and Interpreting Service on 13 1450 and have them contact the WWC Check Information Line on 1300 652 879.
Email: workingwithchildren@justice.vic.gov.au