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Requires a Working with Children Check

List of services or places of work that require a Check

If you don’t identify with any of the services or places listed in the categories below, you’re not doing child-related work. That means you don’t need a Check.

However, if your organisation has told you to get a Check, you will still need to get one.

List of occupational fields that require a Check

Service or place of work Details (Code)
Camps All overnight camps for children (10)
Child care services Child care services including: centre-based long day care (14)occasional care (16)family day care (18)in-home care (20) outside school hours care (22)
Child employment - supervisors Supervision of a child 14 years of age in employment under the Child Employment Act 2003 (76)
Child minding Babysitting or child minding services arranged by a commercial agency (12)
Child protection services Child protection services (24)
Children’s services Children’s services including kindergartens or preschools under the Children’s Services Act 1996 and Education and Care Services National Law (Victoria) Act 2010 (26)
Clubs & associations Clubs, associations, or movements of a cultural, recreational or sporting nature that provide services or conduct activities for, or directed at, children or whose membership comprises primarily children (42)
Coaching & tuition Coaching or private tuition services of any kind specifically for children (28)
Counselling services Counselling or other support services for children (28)
Educational institutions Educational institutions for children, specifically: state schools (all primary, secondary, technical and special state schools) (44)non-government schools (all primary, secondary and special non-government schools) (46)TAFE colleges and TAFE divisions of universities providing VCE and /or Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) subjects (48)some adult education providers offering VCE and/or VCAL subjects (50)other institutions providing children’s study or training programs (52)
Entertainment & party services Commercial entertainment or party services for children unless they are merely incidental to or in support of other business activities (30)
Foster care Fostering children (54)
Gym or play facilities Commercial gym or play facilities for children unless they are merely incidental to or in support of other business activities (32)
Kinship care Caring for a child placed by Child protection under the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (80)
Out-of-home care services Out-of-home care services (under the Children,Youth and Families Act 2005) (38)
Paediatric wards Paediatric wards of public, private or denominational hospitals as defined in the Health Services Act 1988 (58)
Photography services Commercial photography services for children unless they are merely incidental to or in support of other business activities (34)
Refuges Refuges or other residential facilities used by children (62)
Religion Religious organisations (64) Specific requirements for ministers of religion
School crossings School crossing services (66)
Student exchange / homestay arrangements Student exchange / homestay arrangement under Part 4.5A of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006, including accommodation in a person’s home (78)
Talent & beauty competitions Commercial talent or beauty competitions for children unless they are merely incidental to or in support of other business activities (36)
Transport Publicly funded or commercial transport services specifically for children (60)
Youth justice Youth remand, residential, or justice centres, supervision units and probation services within the meaning of the Children Youth and Families Act 2005 (56)

Ministers of religion

Child-related work for ministers of religion is defined more broadly than for everyone else. For ministers, child-related work is not limited to work involving direct contact with children; any contact with children is enough to require a Check.

For example, ministers who have children present in their congregation, or attend schools are required to hold a Check.

The only time a minister does not require a Check is when any contact with children is occasional, and never a part of their normal duties. This might occur, for example, for ministers with purely administrative roles within a church’s bureaucracy.

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Updated 13 February 2026

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