Victorian Numbered Acts

WORKING WITH CHILDREN AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO. 72 OF 2016) - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are to amend the Working with Children Act 2005 —

        (a)     to amend the definitions of direct contact and child-related work ; and

        (b)     to require family members and other persons of significance to a child providing the child with out of home care to obtain assessment notices; and

        (c)     to require non-conviction charges to be part of the relevant criminal history of applicants for assessment notices; and

        (d)     to enable the Secretary to the Department of Justice and Regulation to compel the production of certain information; and

        (e)     to enable information to be exchanged between the Department of Justice and Regulation and the Department of Health and Human Services; and

        (f)     to make technical and miscellaneous changes to that Act.