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Child-related Occupational Fields
The Working with Children (WWC) Check applies to work that is in connection with the services, bodies, places or activities listed below. The 20 child-related occupational fields are:
- child protection services
- child care services (including centre-based long day care, family day care, in-home care, occasional care and outside school hours care)
- children's services (that are required to be regulated under the Children’s Services Act 1996 including kindergartens or preschools)
- educational institutions
- out of home care services, remand centres, youth residential centres, youth supervision units or youth justice centres or probation services under the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005
- refuges or other residential facilities used by children
- paediatric wards of public, private or denominational hospitals as defined in the Health Services Act 1988
- clubs, associations or movements (including cultural, recreational or sporting nature) that provide services or conduct activities for children or whose membership is mainly comprised of children
- religious organisations
- baby sitting or child minding services arranged by a commercial agency
- fostering children
- providing publicly funded or commercial transport service specifically for children
- coaching or tuition services of any kind for children
- counselling or support services for children
- overnight camps for children
- school crossing services
- providing commercial entertainment or party services for children that are not merely incidental to, or in support of, other business activities
- providing commercial gym or play facilities for children that are not merely incidental to, or in support of, other business activities
- providing commercial photography services specifically for children that are not merely incidental to, or in support of, other business activities
- commercial talent or beauty competitions for children that are not merely incidental to, or in support of, other business activities.
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
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