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Working with Children Check - May 2025
Explore the Check with the WWC Screening Unit
The Community Engagement team travelled to the Midwest region last month hosting one-on-one sessions for organisations. Ava Oprandi and Mason Smith 'Explored the Check' with over 50 organisations in seven towns to discuss how they are managing their WWC Check obligations.
Providing smaller, bespoke meetings allowed the team to gain valuable insights into the specific issues and challenges regional organisations are facing. As Ava explained “we heard some of their experiences and difficulties with the WWC application process and talked through some of the key tools that may be able to assist them in this process. We want to continue to produce resources that help people to best understand their WWC Check obligations”.
The team will be using this same approach to Explore the Check in the Kimberley region in June visiting Kununurra, Wyndham, Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome. If your organisation would like to meet with the team to share your experiences with the WWC Check or unpack any issues, please email WWCEvents@communities.wa.gov.au.
Have you Checked?
Our latest Have you Checked? parents and guardians advertising campaign is focused on party entertainers.
The social and digital media campaign will run for three weeks beginning at the end of May.
We want parents and guardians to know that when they're engaging the services of a self-employed party entertainer they should sight and validate their WWC Card.
In June the team will run two free Have you Checked? online information sessions - one for parents and guardians and one for party providers. Registrations are via our Eventbrite page.
If your organisation would like to share this campaign within your networks please email us for a resource pack which includes a social media tile and poster.
WWC Card Errors
In our February newsletter we advised of the new look WWC Card.
We are aware that some applicants are being issued Cards where their signature and photograph is of poor quality. Other applicants have received Cards with an incorrect date of birth or name.
We apologise for the inconvenience and reassure you that these affected WWC Cards remain acceptable evidence of an Assessment Notice being issued by the WWC Screening Unit.
They allow the card holder to commence or continue in child-related work.
If you have received a WWC Card in which your full name or date of birth details are incorrect we kindly ask that you contact our Customer Support team who will ensure that you are issued a new Card at no cost.
Winter Sports Reminder
With the start of the junior winter sport season underway, we want to remind sporting organisations that not all volunteers are eligible for a WWC Check.
For example, parents who are volunteering as a coach or manager at the sporting club their child belongs to, are exempt from applying for a WWC Check. Volunteers under the age of 18 are also ineligible to apply for a WWC Check.
Club or organisational policies cannot override the requirements of the Working with Children Screening (Act) 2004. More information on this can be found in the sport and recreation bulletin the team has developed.
