Working with Children Check - South Australia

You will need a Working with Children Check if you are 14 years of age or over and you do:

• child-related work as a volunteer or employee for more than seven days a year
• any child-related work that involves overnight stays, or close personal contact with a child with a disability.

You also need a Working with Children Check if you run a business where employees or volunteers do child-related work.

Child-related work includes:

• Accommodation and residential services for children, including approved carers and foster care (this applies to any adults residing in a residential or other facility where care is provided to children)
• Child protection services
• Child care or child-minding services
• Clubs and associations with significant membership or involvement of children (all workers and volunteers need a Working with Children Check regardless of whether they have direct contact with children)
• Coaching or tuition services for children
• Commercial services provided to children (eg, play gyms, bouncy castles, face painting, photography of children)
• Disability services for children
• Education services, including pre-school, primary and secondary teachers, and Department for Education employees
• Emergency services
• Health services for children
• Justice and detention services for children
• The provision of traffic control at, or other supervision of, school pedestrian crossings.
• Transport services for children
• Services or activities provided by religious organisations