Blue cards for neighbourhood community centres
You may need a blue card if you work or volunteer with children in a neighbourhood community centre.
Community centres offer many services and activities.
You may need a blue card based on:
- the service you provide
- if children use the service
- whether an exemption applies.
When you need a blue card
You need a blue card if you provide:
- support, counselling or wellbeing programs for children
- child-minding services, crèche or kids club services
- services or activities mainly for children.
These services are covered by different blue card categories. They are:
- health, counselling and support services
- childcare services
- sport, active recreation, gyms and play facilities
- churches, clubs and associations.
Examples include:
- children's support programs
- after-school activities
- youth groups
- under-18 discos
- play groups
- children's parties.
When you do no need a blue card
You do not need a blue card for some activities.
For example:
- you hold a public event, such as a fun run or movie night
- food vans or stalls are part of the event
- you work in an op shop or community cafe with young people
- you deliver meals-on-wheels to local people
- you take part in a school-based traineeship selling groceries to local people
- you hold a public event where children attend with their parents or carers
- you do not provide regulated child-related activities at the event
- you run a senior's program for older people at the centre.
When you use another business
Your centre may use another business to provide services or activities for children.
The business owner and workers may need a blue card.
For example, if your centre may use a business to run a holiday recreation program for children.
The business owner and workers may need blue cards under the sport, active recreation, gyms and play facilities category.
The business must meet its own blue card obligations.
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