Individuals and business operators needing a blue card
If you work, volunteer or run a business with children, you may need a blue card or exemption card.
Whether you need a card depends on:
- the type of work you do
- where you do the work
- whether an exemption applies.
Some categories are based on the work or activity a person does. Others are based on the environment where they work.
Even if working with children is not your main role, you may need a blue card because:
- of the work you do
- you work in a child-related environment.
If your organisation or business gets government funding, check your funding agreement. It may require you to follow working with children laws.
Getting government funding does not always mean that everyone needs a blue card.
Blue card categories
Select a category below to learn about its blue card requirements:
- Care of children under the Child Protection Act 1999
- Child accommodation services
- Childcare services
- Churches, clubs and associations
- Business relating to a licensed care services under the Child protection Act 1999
- Disability work
- Education and care services
- Education programs conducted outside of school
- Education services and activities conducted inside a school
- Emergency services cadet program
- Entertainment, beauty and photography services
- Health, counselling and support services
- Hostels for children other than a residential facility
- Justice and detention services
- Non-state schools—directors of governing bodies and authorised persons
- Private teaching, coaching or tutoring
- Religious representatives
- Residential facilities
- Schools
- School boarding facilities
- School crossing supervisors
- Sport, active recreation, gyms and play facilities.
Executive officers
You also need a blue card or exemption card if:
- you are an executive officer of a corporation, and
- that corporation operates a business in one of the categories above.
This applies if you live anywhere in Australia, including outside Queensland.
It does not apply if you live outside Australia.
More information
- Understand when you don’t need a blue card
- Executive officers and board or committee member blue card requirements
- Check who is eligible to apply for or hold a blue card.