Blue cards for churches, clubs and associations

You need a blue card if you work or volunteer for a church, club or association or similar group and:

• provide services mainly for children
• run activities mainly involving children
• make decisions about activities or services for children as an executive committee.

Executive committee members

An executive committee is a group that manages the activities or services for children within a church, club or association.

Executive committee members need a blue card when they provide regulated services to children.

This is because they management and make decisions about services and activities for children.

They need a blue card even if they do not work directly with children.

This may include:

• presidents
• vice-presidents
• secretaries
• treasurers
• committee members responsible for children's activities or programs.

Employees and volunteers

Providing services mainly to children

You need a blue card if you:

• work in a Sunday school
• work in a church youth group
• deliver programs mainly for children.

Running activities mainly for children

You need a blue card if you:

• coach children at a sporting club
• lead Scout, Girl Guides or similar youth activities
• adjudicate children’s sporting competition
• run a surf lifesaver nippers program
• organise events mainly for children.

Making decisions and oversight of children’s activities

You need a blue card if you:

• are an executive committee member who makes decisions about activities or services for children
• approve budgets, policies or programs for children’s activities
• mange a church youth program as part of an executive committee
• are a show society president or executive committee member who makes decisions about children’s competitions, activities or services.

When you do not need a blue card

You do not need a blue card if you:

• work in a canteen, kitchen or tuckshop
• are a cleaner at the facility
• volunteer as a parent in your own child’s activities, unless you are a restricted person
• take part in a mixed-age sporting team
• are a registered health practitioner working in your professional role
• are a child volunteering as a referee.

Other related categories

For sport, fitness or recreation activities that are not run through a club, refer to:

• sport, active recreation, gyms and play facilities
• private, coaching and tutoring.

More information

Learn more about:

• executive officers and board or committee members
• linking requirements for organisations
• when you do not need a blue card
• who can apply for or hold a blue card
• how to apply for a blue card or exemption card.