SCHEDULE 2 - Entities to compl SCHEDULE 2 - Entities to comply with child and youth safe standards

Section 14

1.   Interpretation

In this Schedule –

religious community service means an organisation that is based in religion but that provides only practical or support services;

religious entity means an organisation which conducts religious services to congregations or carries out religious work but does not include a religious community service.

2.   Entities to comply on and after 1 January 2024

The following entities, or classes of entities, are to comply with the standards on and after 1 January 2024:

(a) the following entities that provide accommodation or residential services:

(i) an entity that provides housing services or other assistance to homeless persons and that provides overnight beds for children;

(ii) an entity that provides or facilitates overnight excursions, camps or stays for children;

(b) a religious community service or a religious entity that provides activities or services of any kind, under the auspices of a particular religious denomination or faith, through which adults have contact with children;

(c) the following entities that provide child care or child-minding services:

(i) a child care service within the meaning of the Child Care Act 2001 ;

(ii) commercial babysitting services or au pair services;

(d) the following entities that provide child protection services or out-of-home care:

(i) a Community-Based Intake Service within the meaning of the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1997 ;