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Children’s Act 2014

Children's worker safety checking - Miscellaneous

40: Approval of screening services

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"Who can do safety checks and how they get approved to keep kids safe"

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The chief executive of a key agency can approve a screening service to do some safety checks. You need to know that this approval will say what parts of the safety check the service can do. The approval can also say which organisations and workers can use the screening service.

When a screening service is approved, it might be used for certain organisations or workers. If there are regulations made under section 33(1)(e), the approval of a screening service must follow those rules.

The approval, suspension, or cancellation of a screening service will be published in the Gazette, so you can find out about it.

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Part 3Children's worker safety checking
Miscellaneous

40Approval of screening services

  1. The chief executive of any key agency may approve a screening service to carry out specified aspects of safety checks.

  2. Every approval—

  3. must specify the aspects of a safety check that the screening service is approved to provide; and
    1. may specify which specified organisations, and which kind of children's worker, the screening services may be used in relation to.

      1. If regulations are made under section 33(1)(e), approval of a screening service may be given, and may be suspended or cancelled, only in accordance with the processes, requirements, and grounds set out in those regulations.

      2. Notice of every approval, and of every suspension or cancellation, must be given in the Gazette.