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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 WWC Check is being phased in over five years and different deadlines have been set for the occupational fields, as detailed in the phasing in schedule.

The 20 child-related occupational fields are:

• child protection services
• certain child care services (for example, centre-based long day care service, family day care service, in-home care service, occasional care service and outside school hours care service)
• certain children's services (for example, providing care or education for five or more children under the age of six years)
• educational institutions
• community services as defined by the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (specific accommodation services generally associated with child protection), remand centres, youth residential centres, youth supervision units or youth training centres or probation services (juvenile justice places or services)
• refuges or other residential facilities used by children
• paediatric wards of public or private hospitals
• clubs, associations or movements (including cultural, recreational, sporting) that provide services or activities for children or whose membership mainly comprises children
• religious organisations
• baby sitting or child minding services arranged by a commercial agency
• fostering children
• providing a 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.