Standard safety checking requirements Specified organisations are going to be required to undertake new standard safety checks of children’s workers they employ or engage. This means they’ll need to ensure that: A: Children’s workers they employ or engage (including contractors) are safety checked to the required standard. B: Three-yearly rechecking is done for all children’s workers they continue to engage. C: They do not employ or engage any person as a core worker (see definition 3 below) who has a specified offence, unless they have an exemption. There are three steps to applying the Act. Step 1: Is it a organisation’? Step 2: Are the specified organisation’s Step 3: Are the specified organisation’s ‘specified employees or contractors employees or contractors children’s ‘children’s ‘core workers’? workers’? A specified organisation: Children’s workers are people: Core children’s workers are children’s workers whose work requires or allows them to be: is a state service (section 2 State Sector Act 1988) who provide a regulated service the only children’s worker present; or receives from a state service to provide whose work may or does involve regular or regulated services (unless it’s receiving money via overnight contact with a child or children and this the children’s worker who has primary responsibility individualised funding arrangements) takes place without a parent or guardian of the for, or authority over, the child or the children child, or of each child, being present. present. employs or engages children’s workers to perform a regulated service. Specified organisations are subject to the Act. These workers need to be safety checked. Workers in these roles cannot have specified convictions unless they have an exemption. What are the regulated health services? 1. Services provided at a public hospital. 2. Services provided at a publicly-funded medical practice or facility, including blood and cancer centres, treatment centres, outreach clinics, and mental health services.
Standard safety checking requirements Specified organisations are going to be required to undertake new standard safety checks of children’s workers they employ or engage. This means they’ll need to ensure that: A: Children’s workers they employ or engage (including contractors) are safety checked to the required standard. B: Three-yearly rechecking is done for all children’s workers they continue to engage. C: They do not employ or engage any person as a core worker (see definition 3 below) who has a specified offence, unless they have an exemption. There are three steps to applying the Act. Step 1: Is it a ‘specified organisation’? Step 2: Are the specified organisation’s employees or contractors ‘children’s workers’? Step 3: Are the specified organisation’s employees or contractors ‘core children’s workers’? A specified organisation: is a state service (section 2 State Sector Act 1988) receives from a state service to provide regulated services (unless it’s receiving money via individualised funding arrangements) employs or engages children’s workers to perform a regulated service. Children’s workers are people: who provide a regulated service whose work may or does involve regular or overnight contact with a child or children and this takes place without a parent or guardian of the child, or of each child, being present. Core children’s workers are children’s workers whose work requires or allows them to be: the only children’s worker present; or the children’s worker who has primary responsibility for, or authority over, the child or the children present. Specified organisations are subject to the Act. These workers need to be safety checked. Workers in these roles cannot have specified convictions unless they have an exemption. What are the regulated health services? 1. Services provided at a public hospital. 2. Services provided at a publicly-funded medical practice or facility, including blood and cancer centres, treatment centres, outreach clinics, and mental health services.
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