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124 What is child-related employment?
(1) Employment is child-related (child-related employment) if the
employment involves contact with a child in relation to any of the
(a) child protection services;
(b) preschools, kindergartens or education and care services or
childcare centres;
(c) family day care schemes;
(d) educational institutions for children;
(e) detention places under the Children and Young People
Act 2008;
(f) refuges or other residential facilities used by children;
(g) wards of public or private hospitals where children are
ordinarily patients;
(h) clubs, associations or movements (including of a cultural,
recreational or sporting nature) with significant child
membership or involvement (including involvement of a
voluntary nature);
(i) religious organisations;
(j) babysitting or childminding services arranged by a commercial
agency;
(k) fostering children;
(l) providing public or private transport services for the transport of
children;
(m) private tuition services of any kind for children arranged by a
commercial agency;
(n) counselling or other support services for children;
(o) overnight camps, irrespective of the kind of accommodation or
of how many children are involved;
(p) school-crossing services;
(q) before and after school care programs;
(r) school holiday vacation programs;
(s) approved training contracts under the Training and Tertiary
Education Act 2003;
(t) legal services related to a child, provided by Legal Aid ACT;
1 providing advice to a child
2 representing a child in a legal matter
3 representing a person in a proceeding where a child is a witness
(u) anything else prescribed by regulation for this section.
childcare centre includes a childcare centre within the meaning of the
Children and Young People Act 2008, section 733.
contact means any form of contact between a person and a child, and
includes—
(a) any form of physical contact; and
(b) any form of oral communication, whether face-to-face or by
telephone; and
(c) any form of written communication, including electronic
communication.
educational institutions for children include the following:
(a) a government school or non-government school under the
Education Act 2004;
(b) a registered training organisation under the National Vocational
Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (Cwlth), section 3;
(c) a registered higher education provider under the Tertiary
Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (Cwlth).
education and care service—see the Education and Care Services
National Law (ACT), section 5.
Note The Education and Care Services National Law (ACT) Act 2011, s 6
applies the Education and Care Services National Law set out in the
Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010 (Vic), schedule as
if it were an ACT law called the Education and Care Services National
Law (ACT).
family day care scheme—see the Children and Young People
Act 2008, section 734.
Legal Aid ACT—see the Legal Aid Act 1977, section 94
(Commission to operate as Legal Aid ACT).
school-crossing services means services provided by people to assist
children to cross roads on their way to or from school.