Working With Children Check

For applicants

• Your Check: Apply for a check, change your details, renew your check in the Your Check section of the Working With Children Check online form
• Verify: Verify your own clearance in the Verify section of the Working With Children Check online form
• Retrieve your WWC number: If you have lost your clearance number

For employers

• Register: Register as an employer in child-related work in the Employer registration section of the Working With Children Check online form
• Verify: Verify a worker's clearance or update your organisation's details in the Verify section of the Working With Children Check online form

For parents

• Verify: Verify a tutor or someone you have engaged to work with your child in the Verify section of the Working With Children Check online form

What is the Working With Children Check?

A Working With Children Check is a requirement for people who work or volunteer in child-related work. It involves a national criminal history check and a review of findings of workplace misconduct.

The result of a Working With Children Check is either a clearance to work with children for five years, or a bar against working with children. Cleared applicants are subject to ongoing monitoring and relevant new records may lead to the clearance being revoked.

The Working With Children Check is fully portable so it can be used for any paid or unpaid child-related work in NSW for as long as the worker remains cleared.

The Working With Children Check is only one part of keeping children safe. Learn more about how to develop and maintain a child safe organisation or register for our FREE Child Safe Organisation training.

More about how the Working With Children Check works.