Category 1. Child care service

• Managerial Officers
• Individual Licensees
• Child care workers (eg. outside school hour’s care)
• Nominated supervising officers
• Students on placement over 18 years of age
• Gardeners, cleaners cook etc whose employment is at the child care centre and who do their work while children are likely to be present and contact with a child occurs as part of their usual duties
• Self-employed people or their employees who attend a centre to provide classes to children.

• Parents/relative minding a child, “live in” nanny

Category 2. Community kindergarten registered under the School Education Act 1999, Part 5

• Teacher in charge
• Education assistant
• Non-teaching staff who work with the children
• Students over 18 years of age on placement
• Self-employed people or their employees who run classes for the children
• Gardeners, cleaners cook etc whose employment is at the kindergarten and who do their work while children are likely to be present and contact with a child occurs as part of their usual duties

• Volunteer members of Parent Management Committee who have a child enrolled in the kindergarten

Category 3. Educational institution for children

• Teachers
• Front desk receptionist at a school
• School health staff
• Some TAFE lecturers
• Non-teaching staff who work with the children
• People who visit the school to provide health services to children
• Instructors or leaders of after school activity programmes organised in conjunction with the school for its students and that take place at the school or its oval
• Gardeners, cleaners cook etc whose employment is at the institution and who do their work while children are likely to be present and contact with a child occurs as part of their usual duties
• Canteen or tuckshop staff who work directly with or supervise a child rostered to help

• TAFE lecturers providing classes to adults only
• School cleaners where there are no children on the premises, and there is no opportunity for contact with a child
• Supervisors of student teachers who observe the student teachers in classrooms but do not have contact with a child as part of their usual duties
• Staff at places that school students visit on excursions with their teachers eg staff showing teachers and students around the Art Gallery of Western Australia
• Persons externally contracted to provide once-off or occasional maintenance to the buildings or deliver goods to the school

Category 4. Coaching or private tuition service of any kind (not including an informal arrangement entered into for private or domestic purposes)

• Driving instructors who teach people under 18 years old
• Music or educational tutors for children
• Sport coaches for children

• Yoga classes provided to general community (and not provided primarily for children)
• Tutoring provided by a neighbour, friend or relative as an informal arrangement

Category 5. An arrangement for accommodation or care of children, whether in a residential facility or private residence (not including an informal arrangement made by a parent of the child concerned or accommodation or care provided by a relative of the child)

• School boarding house workers who have contact with a child as part of their usual duties
• Country school hostel workers who have contact with a child as part of their usual duties
• Youth refuge workers
• Persons who agree to provide accommodation and care for exchange students who are under 18
• Persons providing ‘home stay’ accommodation for individual children
• Persons providing home billeting to children where the billeting arrangement has been arranged/managed by an education institution

• Residential college staff at university
• Informal arrangements between family/friends
• School boarding house workers who do not have contact with a child

Category 6: A placement arrangement under the Children and Community Services Act 2004

• Direct care workers and others providing services to children at a residential care centre
• Foster carers
• Relative carers
• Students on placement, gardeners, cleaners, cook etc who are employed at a residential care centre, who do their work while children are likely to be present and contact with a child occurs as part of their usual duties

• Fellow adult or child residents at the child’s placement arrangement

Category 7 The performance by an officer, as defined in the Children and Community Services Act 2004, section 3, of a function given to the officer under that Act

• Department for Child Protection case managers of children in the CEO’s care
• DCP investigators of child maltreatment allegations

• DCP Officers whose usual duties do not bring them into contact with a child

Category 8. A detention centre, as defined in the Young Offenders Act 1994 section 3

• Group workers at a youth detention centre
• Teachers/counsellors/medical staff who provide services to young people in a youth detention centre
• Legal aid officers who have contact with the youth at the detention centre
• Students on placement, gardeners, cleaners, cook etc who are employed at a youth detention centre, who do their work while children are likely to be present and contact with a child occurs as part of their usual duties

• The accounts person working at a youth detention centre if their work does not bring them into contact with a child
• Cleaners if their work does not bring them into contact with a child
• People providing services to children in detention outside of the youth detention centre

Category 9: Community child health service

• Child health nurse
• School health nurse

• General practitioners in private practice
• Community health centres targeting general community

Category 10: Counselling or other support service

• Child counsellors, psychotherapists and similar professionals who treat emotional and psychological problems
• Social workers or psychologists providing family counselling or support services that involve children
• Those providing counselling services for children with cancer and other serious illnesses
• Telephone counselling for children
• Speech pathologists, occupational therapists who as part of their services provide counselling to assist children to emotionally manage their conditions

• A counsellor who only provides services to adults
• Work undertaken by lawyers is not considered to be counselling

Category 11: Religious organisation

• Religious leaders including Ministers of religion, Chaplains, Rabbis, Priests and others where the usual duties of these leaders involves contact with children
• People who volunteer their services for ‘Sunday School’, church youth activities, children’s religious story telling

• Church based charity organisations such as Anglicare/Centrecare that provide practical and support services rather than religious services (people undertaking work for these organisations may fall under another category)

Category 12: Club, association or movement (including of a cultural, recreational or sporting nature and whether incorporated or not) with a significant membership or involvement of children (not including an informal arrangement entered into for private or domestic purposes)

• Sport coaches/umpires for a club who coach or umpire children
• Guides and Scout leaders

• Administrative staff of a club if their usual duties of work do not bring them into contact with a child
• Lifeguards providing general life saving services at the pool for adults and children

Category 13: Ward of a public private hospital in which children are ordinarily patients

• Nurse working at a children’s hospital
• Hospital orderlies whose usual duties involve contact with a child
• GP or Paediatrician visiting a ward of a children’s hospital

• Hospital cleaners whose usual duties do not involve contact with a child
• Nurse working in a ward of a hospital where children are not ordinarily patients

Category 14: Babysitting or child minding service (not including an informal arrangement entered into for private or domestic purposes)

• Formal babysitter
• Babysitting staff of a babysitting agency, live-in or day nanny
• Staff working with the children at a crèche at a recreational or health club or shopping centre that is not licensed

• Private informal babysitting provided by family/friend

Category 15: Overnight camp, regardless of the type of accommodation or how many children are involved

• Camp caretakers whose usual duties involve contact with a child
• People who supervise children and activities at an overnight camp

• Campsite cook who has no contact with a child
• Adults including parents who are merely participating in the camp along side the children and have no duties in relation to the overnight camp, eg a camp teaching ‘survival skills where the adults and children are both learning and the adult is not supervising the children or activities

Category 16: Transport service specifically for children

• Bus drivers on dedicated school bus services and their school bus aides
• Drivers of a child’s “party limo”

• Taxi drivers providing services to the general public

Category 17: School crossing service, being a service provided to assist children to cross roads on their way to and from school

• “Lollipop” school cross walk attendants (traffic wardens)
• A person (who is not a parent of a child at the school) who volunteers as a school crossing attendant

Category 18: Children’s entertainment or party service

• Magicians/clowns who provide public entertainment services specifically for children if they have physical contact with children
• Animal farm shows that visit schools or provide private children’s parties
• Father Christmas and his helpers (elves etc) and the children’s photographer when they have physical or verbal contact with a child

• Public performances that do not involve physical contact with children eg “Disney on Ice”, or children’s theatre
• Director or fellow actors working alongside child performers
• Staff at the ‘party venue’ that provides the place and food but whose staff are not having contact with children as part of the activities or games

Category 19: Any other work prescribed by the regulations