Have your say on Phase 2 Reforms to strengthen WA's Working with Children Check law

Have your say on Phase 2 Reforms to strengthen WA's Working with Children Check law
Please provide your feedback via the form below. You can do this at any time until the consultation process closes on 23 September 2025.

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The following questions are in the same order as they appear in the consultation paper.

You do not have to answer all of the questions – please answer those of interest to you.

Please refer to the relevant sections in the consultation paper, for information which may inform or assist your responses.
1. Have you had any lived experience with difficulties from the current definitions of ‘contact’ or ‘child-related work’ in the Act?
2. What types of ‘mentoring services’ should be captured by the Act?
3. What types of ‘other support services’ should be captured by the Act?
4. What types of commercial or non-commercial services for children should be captured by the Act, beyond a children’s entertainment or party service?
5. What types of disability services for children should be captured by the Act?
6. What types of educational services or facilities should be captured by the Act?

7. Should these be limited to educational services or facilities specifically ‘for children’?
8. What types of health services or facilities should be captured by the Act?
9. Should these be limited to health services or facilities specifically ‘for children’?
10. What types of youth justice or detention services or facilities should be captured by the Act?
11. Should these be limited to justice services or facilities specifically ‘for children’?
12. Should the Act be amended to exclude work undertaken for an informal, private or domestic purpose, in relation to the categories noted above?
13. Should the Act be amended to prevent persons with a Negative Notice or Interim Negative Notice from WA, from accessing all or any of the other exemptions?

14. Should the Act be amended to prevent persons accessing the Parent Volunteer Exemption where the services involve close, personal contact with a child with a disability other than their own child?
15. Should the Act be amended to prevent persons from accessing the five-day defence in relation to overnight camps?
16. Should employers be required to inform the WWC Screening Unit when a person commences or ceases being engaged by them in child-related employment, with a penalty if they do not? How often should such mandatory notifications be required?
17. In the case of a student on placement as part of their educational or vocational course of study, should a mandatory notification requirement be applied to both the placement provider as the employer and the student’s education provider? Or only one such party? If so which one?
18. Should the Act authorise the publication of information about a prosecution for an offence under the Act, after commencement of the prosecution, or after conviction?
19. Should the Act provide the CEO discretion to either proactively advise relevant persons, and/or publish a public warning notice, that a person with a current Negative Notice continues to carry out child-related work, before a prosecution of that person has commenced?
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