AUSTRALIA
The Chronicle
Owen Jacques | 17th Aug 2015
ALL religious leaders and staff in Australia would have to have “Working With Children Checks” if new recommendations from the Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse are adopted.
It includes a national approach to how these checks, called a “Blue Card” in Queensland, are conducted.
The Royal Commission has today released its report into Working With Children Checks, which at the moment are approved at a state level.
These eight schemes, according to the report, “are inconsistent and complex”.
The Commission has taken aim at the inconsistencies this creates nationally, warning that those who may be banned from working with children in one state can “forum shop” to receive an approval somewhere else.
If someone is unfit to work with children but has no criminal history, the states have no way of sharing that information.
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