Kinders · MCH · early years
October 2025 scheme changes. Victorian early childhood services have a legal duty to keep workers and volunteers on a valid WWCC or VIT registration, and to stay informed of scheme changes. A person cannot start in an early childhood service while an application is pending. Worker Screening Act 2020 — never the repealed 2005 Act.
Paid child-related workers must hold an Employee WWCC, not Volunteer. KeepClear flags the card type as well as the date. We wrap Service Victoria and VIT. We do not become those registers.
Paid kinder and MCH staff must hold an Employee clearance. Councils already write this into careers FAQs (Cardinia: employer-based; Shepparton: Employee status required). A yes/no WWCC field fails that rule for casuals and labour-hire.
Registered early childhood teachers sit on VIT. Other child-related workers sit on WWCC. KeepClear watches both on the same person. We are not VIT and we are not Service Victoria.
Maternal and child health still needs a current WWCC beside AHPRA RN and midwife (31 May). Strathbogie lists casual MCH on the same careers page as outdoor and admin roles — no public credential product. The matrix is the product.
On the public record · 30 August 2026 research
These are Victorian facts, not testimonials. KeepClear has no claimed customers.
Check status before the worker starts. Seeing the card is not enough. The worker must list the organisation so the Worker Screening Unit can notify on change or cancellation. Do not allow work on interim exclusion, exclusion, interim bar or suspension. Know when workers’ and volunteers’ clearances expire. Paid child-related workers need Employee, not Volunteer.
vic.gov.au/legal-obligations-organisations · updated 24 July 2026
Services have a legal duty to keep workers and volunteers on a valid WWCC or VIT registration, and to stay informed of scheme changes. A person cannot start in an early childhood service while an application is pending. That is a roster rule, not a policy poster.
vic.gov.au · early childhood update, October 2025 · Worker Screening Act 2020
Victorian organisations must check Working with Children status before the worker starts. Listing the council so WSU can notify is part of that duty — a photocopy in the onboarding pack is not.
vic.gov.au/what-organisations-need-know · updated 13 February 2026
Melton ApplyNow PDs still treat Employee WWCC as a hiring gate. Geelong Family Services volunteer PD (August 2024) asks for WWCC (employee or volunteer card) or VIT. None of those pages is a live clearance desk after day one.
ApplyNow / geelongaustralia.com.au · 30 August 2026 research pass
Child safety · early years · MCH
Monthly opex under a 2.75% rate cap. Kinders, libraries, rec, youth, in-home care. If the check lapses, the flag is do not start.
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