Your work is included in the WWC Check if you are:
- a volunteer (this does not include unpaid work done for a private or domestic purpose, such as driving a neighbour’s children to school)
- performing unpaid community work under a court order
- an employee or an independent contractor (self-employed person)
- a minister of religion or performing duties of a religious vocation
- an officer of a body corporate
- a member of a committee of management (unincorporated body or association) or partnership
- a person doing practical training as part of an educational or vocational course, for example, a student teacher.
Does your work or volunteering usually (or is likely to) involve regular, direct contact with a child where that contact is not directly supervised?
To help you answer this question, you should discuss the nature of your role with your employer, agency or volunteer organisation.
‘Direct contact’ is any contact with a child that involves any of the following:
- physical contact
- talking face-to-face
- physically being in view – this means you can see them.
Direct contact does not include telephone, email or internet contact with a child.
To be considered ‘directly supervised’, your supervision must be:
- undertaken by a person who has the role of supervising your ‘child-related work’
- immediate and personal.
Direct supervision does not require constant physical presence. For example, a person who is directly supervising a worker may leave the room in which they are engaging in the work to make a phone call.
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