If you have ever been charged with certain offences overseas and you want to apply for, or renew a Working with Children Check (WWCC), you must tell us. This is required under section 36C of the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012. You must also tell us if you become aware of the record after you have applied for a WWCC. Failure to disclose is an offence.
You must select ‘yes’ on the WWCC application form if you have ever been charged (regardless of court outcome) with any equivalent offences listed in Schedule 1 or 2 of the Act including the following serious offences (or similar) in a country other than Australia:
- murder, attempted murder, or manslaughter
- assault causing serious harm, injury, or wounding (including in combination with any other offences, such as robbery or theft)
- rape, sexual assault, indecent acts, incest, bestiality, or other sexual offences
- sex or sexual activity with a child or a vulnerable person
- grooming or procuring a child or vulnerable person for any form of sexual activity (whether intended or committed)
- any offences involving child abuse material (child pornography)
- abduction, kidnapping, human trafficking, or slavery
- drug trafficking, manufacture, or distribution
- any drug offences involving a child
- neglect or ill-treatment of a child or vulnerable person
- fraud, deception, or forgery
- treason, treachery, terrorism, genocide, mutiny or espionage
- animal cruelty involving intentional or reckless infliction of harm, injury, wounding, or suffering
We will ask you to provide your overseas police certificate or police record. If records are in a language other than English, you must also provide a National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) translation of those records.
The police certificate or record must be certified. An authorised certifier must ensure the copy of the document is an identical copy of the original document. The certification must be on each page of the document and accompanied by the certifier’s signature, full name, profession (for example, Justice of the Peace), registration number (if applicable) and date.
