Background
The Working with Children (Criminal Record Checking) Act 2004 (the Act) provides procedures for checking the criminal record of people who carry out, or propose to carry out, child-related work.
Child-related work is work where “the usual duties of the work involve, or are likely to involve, contact with a child” and connected to a type of service, institution, organisation, work or other arrangement listed in s.6 of the Act. It is an offence for:
- an employer to employ someone in child-related work, and
a person to undertake such work, unless the person has a current Working with Children Check (WWCC) or pending application for one. It is also an offence for an employer to continue employing someone in child-related work if the employer has been notified the employee has been issued with an Interim Negative Notice or a Negative Notice.
WWCCs must be renewed every three years.
Further information is available at https://workingwithchildren.wa.gov.au
