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Every day children and young people around NSW are involved in child care, schooling, health treatments, refuges, clubs, church groups and other places where adults are employed to work with them.

Most adults do a great job in helping kids grow and develop safely in these environments. However there are always risks when you take responsibility for the wellbeing of children and young people. Being a Child-safe and Child- friendly employer or organisation and the Working With Children Check helps manage these risks.

The Working With Children Check consists of three elements:

• Building Child-safe and Child-friendly organisations
• Excluding people with convictions for serious sex and violence crimes against children
• Background checking for preferred applicants for primary child-related employment.

To find out more about your responsibilities under the Working With Children Check, please visit our Working With Children Check Employer Guidelines; or follow the links to this specific information:

• Child-safe Child-friendly organisations
• Employer obligations
• Do you provide child-related employment?
• Prohibited employment
• Do you need to do background checks?
• What records are checked?