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3 NOVEMBER, 2024

Working With Children Checks - Find out More!

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Need to obtain a WWCC? Fill in our WWCC Request Form.
You will need your ESportsDesk Membership #, so make sure you have that before you start. If you do not have an ESD account, create one before submitting your request.
If you have any queries, please contact the IHSA Secretary
E:secretary@icehockeysa.com.au

Ever wondered why your role in IHSA requires a Working With Children Check?
Here is some information and background, along with the steps you can take to become compliant. Working with Children Checks

Who needs a Working with Children Check
You need a Working with Children Check if you are 14 or over and you do:

child-related work as a volunteer or employee for more than seven days a year
any child-related work that involves overnight stays, or close personal contact with a child with a disability.

You also need a Working with Children Check if you run a business where employees or volunteers do child-related work.
It is an offence to do child-related work without a Working with Children Check.

What is child-related work
Child-related work includes:

Accommodation and residential services for children, including approved carers and foster care
- this applies to any adults residing in a residential or other facility where care is provided to children
Child protection services
Child care or child-minding services
Clubs and associations with significant membership or involvement of children
- All workers and volunteers need a Working with Children Check regardless of whether they have direct contact with children
Coaching or tuition services for children
Commercial services provided to children (eg, play gyms, bouncy castles, face painting, photography of children)
Disability services for children
Education services, including pre-school, primary and secondary teachers, and Department for Education employees
Emergency services
Health services for children
Justice and detention services for children
The provision of traffic control at, or other supervision of, school pedestrian crossings.
Transport services for children
Services or activities provided by religious organisations

Prescribed positions
Legislation and some regulations may refer to a role as a prescribed position. A prescribed position is one in which a person works with children, or in which it is reasonably foreseeable that they will work with children.

What is not child-related work
The following are not child-related work.

Where the service or activity is provided for a personal or domestic service. For example, if a grandparent, aunt or uncle provides care to a child while their parent is out.
Where you employ or supervise a child in the course of a service or activity that is not child-related work. For example, the owner of, or a supervisor at, a supermarket that employs or supervises children. Here, the service being provided is not child-related work.
Where you undertake the service or activity in the same capacity as a child. For example, an adult playing in a football team alongside a child does not need a Working with Children Check (however, they do need a Working with Children Check if they are coaching or volunteering in some other capacity for the football club).
Any other service or activity in the course of which contact with children:
- occurs incidentally; or
- would not reasonably be expected to occur.

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What do you want to do?

Report an Incident?
Fill in our Incident Report Form.

Report an Injury?
If you are injured while playing or training in sanctioned activities, it is important that you follow the steps below. Especially if you take any time out from the activity (even a few minutes to recover). Access information here.

Obtain a WWCC?
Fill in our WWCC Request Form.
You will need your ESportsDesk Membership #, so make sure you have that before you start. If you do not have an ESD account, create one before submitting your request.