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What Is Included in a Working with Children Check

A Working with Children Check confirms that a candidate holds a valid clearance to work with children. All Australian states and territories have legislation governing child related employment screening, and each jurisdiction has its own processes, terminology and renewal timelines. Since June 2013, every jurisdiction has required screening for individuals working in education, childcare, child welfare, health, entertainment, recreation and religious instruction.

Because each state and territory uses different systems, verifying the validity of a Working with Children Clearance can be time consuming and complex.

TalentScreen by MVSI makes this simple. Our team understands the rules, processes and exemptions in each jurisdiction. We verify clearance status quickly and accurately, ensuring your organisation remains compliant and confident when hiring for child related roles.

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In Your Report

A Working With Children Check from TalentScreen by MVSI provides a summary of the clearance, including the name on the certificate, issuing authority, issue date and expiry date.

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Using the information

A Working with Children Check helps confirm that your organisation is meeting its legal obligations and that your candidate is currently authorised and safe to work with children.

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What our clients say

"I truly appreciate everything the team has done, especially during the first half of the year when we had to hire around 50 GP reps. I know my urgent requests and last-minute changes can sometimes add pressure, so thank you for your patience and flexibility. I want to express my deepest appreciation to you and the team. Always proactive, never needing a follow-up on urgent checks, and consistently providing updates on progress. Just wanted you to know that I truly value the partnership that we have."

Global Pharmaceutical Company

“I just wanted to say thank you for the work you’ve done over the years for us. The way you come back with the checks so much more quickly than the screening companies some of our clients engage. Not sure what you’re doing but it’s great. Your service is helping to give us a more competitive advantage and it gets the people hired that we put forward to our clients, quicker. We can get them into the clients quickly and getting them earning money and us earning money. You’re really making a difference”

HR Business Partner

“We do a lot of executive and board appointments, which require careful and complete due diligence in screening. I have found TalentScreen an amazing resource to assist my Executive recruiting campaigns. They are extremely responsive to urgent deadlines (& will work anytime necessary- day/ night & weekends to service overseas connections; no 9am to 5pm work only for TalentScreen!) & provides far superior service to the larger verification company I had been using.”

HR Consulting Firm

“I wanted to thank you for flagging this with me regarding this candidate’s check. I know it’s part of your role, but just wanted to commend you and the team on how you handled this situation. We’ve had a few cases like this candidate but how you handled it, the way you communicated it and the details you gave me were phenomenal. Didn’t even have to chase you – you were the one who flagged it to me. So just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you and the team for all the help and incredible support."

Global Pharmaceutical company

“We use TalentScreen to conduct criminal background checks on our candidates to ensure we comply with our contractual obligations to our customers. TalentScreen makes it easy and painless, they have great respect for the candidates, and their turnaround time is simply fantastic".

Global Workforce Specialist

“I had to come and see you guys at the AHRI stand, just so I could personally say thank you for helping us streamline the process for our new hires and volunteers. It has made such a difference to both our workload, and our quality of hires. Great job TalentScreen!”

Community Based Charity

"We use TalentScreen for a wide range of compliance checks, but your work in helping us drive change in our corporate culture has been outstanding. Special thanks to your workplace psychologist in developing our cultural compatibility assessment. Excellent work!”

Financial Services Company

“Security and honesty is critical in staffing our stores, and something we take seriously. The reliability of TalentScreen in providing our criminal background checks, coupled with their excellent customer service is a real benefit to our recruitment process.”

Global Jewellery Retailer

“I can highly recommend the services of TalentScreen. The number of times we have reconsidered candidates based on the background checks results makes it very worthwhile. They are very quick to respond, and also very diligent, professional, efficient and personable.”

Global Pharmaceutical Company

“We now use TalentScreen as a standard for all hiring. We had a situation where the reference checks indicated there may be an issue with cultural fit to our organisation. We ignored it, as we did not feel it was important. Within the 90-day probation period we were forced to terminate the employee, yes, because of poor cultural fit and not being a team player. If a TalentScreen report advises further investigation or follow up, we now take it seriously.“

Digital Outdoor Advertising

“TalentScreen does our probity checks to satisfy our banking and finance contractual obligations. Exceptionally efficient, fabulous customer service, and I highly recommend them. - P.S. Great technology, makes it easy for our candidates.”

Compliance Company

“We operate across remote environments, which can make it challenging. Your systems make criminal and background checks a snap for our clients, and you take it all in your stride. TalentScreen we love your work. Keep it up!”

Not for Profit Social Enterprise

“We use TalentScreen for our criminal background checks on potential new employees. Deb and the team from TalentScreen have been a wonderful addition to our background check requirements. Their customer service and timely delivery is outstanding. Looking forward to many years working together supporting our company.”

Supplier of Global Automated Technology

“We really appreciate the way you update your systems to accommodate our individual requirements. Your flexibility and responsiveness are very rare, and we just wanted to say thanks. Maintaining probity around staffing in financial services can be challenging, but you really help simplify it for us.”

Global Fintech

"We’ve been using TalentScreen for over 7 years now and we can’t recommend them highly enough. They are extremely professional and the candidates’ references are checked thoroughly and promptly. They also always go beyond expectations in customising the referees’ questions to suit the role, thereby discovering the candidate’s weaknesses and strengths. TalentScreen definitely takes the risk out of the employment process."

Management of IT Consultancy

“Wow! Talentscreen makes it so simple, your reporting is excellent. Our hiring managers are very happy to have clear, concise overviews, and can easily decide whether to continue to the interview and selection process."

Marketing Company

“From my dealings with TalentScreen to date, they are very professional, quick to respond and set good expectations. The quality of service is by far second to none and I would highly recommend TalentScreen to any company looking to outsource their pre-employment background checks to a highly competent company.”

Printing Company

"We’ve been using TalentScreen for over 2 years now, and can’t recommend them highly enough. They are extremely professional and the candidates’ references are checked thoroughly and promptly. They also always go beyond expectations in customising the referees’ questions to suit the role, thereby discovering the candidate’s weaknesses and strengths. TalentScreen definitely takes the risk out of the employment process."

Pepperstone

"Security and honesty is critical in staffing our stores, and something we take seriously. The reliability of TalentScreen in providing our criminal background checks, coupled with their excellent customer service is a real benefit to our recruitment process."

Working With Children Checks

What Is Included in a Working with Children Check

In Your Report

Using the information

Other Checks:

What our clients say

Global Pharmaceutical Company

HR Business Partner

HR Consulting Firm

Global Pharmaceutical company

Global Workforce Specialist

Community Based Charity

Financial Services Company

Global Jewellery Retailer

Global Pharmaceutical Company

Digital Outdoor Advertising

Compliance Company

Not for Profit Social Enterprise

Supplier of Global Automated Technology

Global Fintech

Management of IT Consultancy

Marketing Company

Printing Company

Pepperstone

Pandora

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