Div 8Worker screening

Division 8—Worker screening

Subdivision A—Aged care worker screening database

379  Aged care worker screening database

 (1) The Commissioner must establish, operate and maintain a database for the purposes of this Act, to be known as the aged care worker screening database.

 (2) The aged care worker screening database must be kept in electronic form.

Purposes of the database

 (3) The purposes of the aged care worker screening database are the following:

 (a) to maintain, for the purposes of this Act, an up‑to‑date record of persons who, under decisions made under aged care worker screening laws, have been found, in working, or seeking to work, with individuals accessing funded aged care services not to pose a risk, or to pose a risk, to such individuals;

 (b) in relation to persons covered by paragraph (a)—to maintain an up‑to‑date record of other decisions that relate to the decisions covered by that paragraph;

 (c) to share information in the database:

 (i) with registered providers that are employers or potential employers of persons; and

 (ii) with persons or bodies (whether the persons or bodies are registered providers or not) for the purposes of this Act or for the purposes of those persons or bodies facilitating the employment, engagement or training of other persons to work with individuals accessing funded aged care services; and

 (iii) with the Commissioner of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission for the purposes of that Commissioner performing that Commissioner’s functions; and

 (iv) with the Chief Executive Officer of the National Disability Insurance Agency for the purposes of performing the functions of the Agency; and

 (v) with persons or bodies (including employers and potential employers) for the purposes of the National Disability Insurance Scheme;

 (d) any other purpose prescribed by the rules.

 (4) Paragraphs (3)(a) to (c) do not limit paragraph (3)(d).

Information in the database

 (5) The aged care worker screening database may include the following information for the purposes of subsection (3):

 (a) information relating to persons (each of whom is a screening applicant) who have made applications (each of which is a screening application) for an aged care worker screening check and information relating to those applications;

 (b) information relating to each screening applicant in respect of whom a screening application is no longer being considered and the reasons for this;

 (c) information relating to each screening applicant in respect of whom a decision (a clearance decision) (however described) is in force, under an aged care worker screening law, to the effect that the person, in working, or seeking to work, with individuals accessing funded aged care services does not pose a risk to such individuals and information relating to the decision;