What it does
The Child Protection (Working with Children) Regulation 2013 operationalises the screening regime established by the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012 (the Act). Its primary function is to give concrete content to the Act’s concepts of “child-related work” and the associated clearance obligations. Part 2 (cll 4–16E) contains an exhaustive, sector-by-sector taxonomy. For example, cl 4(1) brings mentoring and counselling services within child-related work only when delivered as part of a formal government or non-government agency program. Clause 6(1)–(3) captures health practitioners in paediatric wards or providing child health services and non-practitioner staff in paediatric settings; cl 6(3A) expressly deems direct contact in those roles to be “a usual part of and more than incidental to the work”, removing any argument about incidental contact. Similar granular treatment appears for clubs and sporting bodies (cl 7), disability respite (cl 8), commercial child care and au pairs (cl 9), schools and private tuition (cl 10), commercial entertainment venues (cl 11), justice and detention settings (cl 12), religious organisations (cl 13), residential services and home-stays longer than three weeks (cl 14), government-funded or commercial transport (cl 15), and youth workers (cl 16).
The regulation then prescribes additional child-related roles under the Act s 6(3): school cleaners (cl 16A), governing body members of designated agencies, specialised substitute residential care providers and accredited adoption service providers (cl 16B), principal officers of specialised substitute residential care entities (cl 16C), heads of child safe organisations (cl 16CA), and workers providing ongoing non-contact counselling, mentoring or distance education (cl 16D). Clause 16AA adds inspectors under the .