7Child-related work

7 Child-related work

(1) Subject to subsection (2), in this Act, child-related work means work—

(a) at or for a service, body or place, or that involves an activity, specified in subsection (3); and

(b) that usually involves direct contact with a child.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, work is not child‑related work by reason only of occasional direct contact with children that is incidental to the work.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), the following services, bodies, places or activities are specified—

(a) child protection services;

(b) children's services within the meaning of the Children's Services Act 1996;

(c) education and care services within the meaning of the Education and Care Services National Law (Victoria);

(d) educational institutions;

(e) out of home care services, remand centres, youth residential centres or youth justice centres within the meaning of the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 or probation services under that Act;

(f) refuges or other residential facilities used by children;

(g) accommodation services specifically provided for students in connection with the operation of a student exchange program under Part 4.5A of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006, including the provision by a person of accommodation in the person's home;

(h) paediatric wards of public hospitals within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1988 or of denominational or private hospitals within the meaning of that Act;

(i) clubs, associations or movements (including of a cultural, recreational or sporting nature) that provide services or conduct activities for, or directed at, children or whose membership is mainly comprised of children;

(j) religious organisations;

(k) baby sitting or child minding services arranged by a commercial agency;

(l) fostering children;

(m) providing, on a publicly-funded or commercial basis, a transport service specifically for children;

(n) coaching or tuition services of any kind specifically for children;

(o) counselling or other support services for children;

(p) overnight camps for children regardless of the type of accommodation or of how many children are involved;

(q) school crossing services, being services provided by people employed to assist children to cross roads on their way to or from school;

(r) providing, on a commercial basis and not merely incidentally to or in support of other business activities—