On 1 February 2021, important changes were made to Registration to Work with Vulnerable People worker screening. These changes affect both you as an employer and your registered employees/workers including volunteers.

Changes to obligations

• Employers are required to ensure that workers have their details added or removed within 10 working days after they start or finish working for you.

• You can allow a worker to begin working while an application is being processed. However to do this you must:
  • make sure a registered person supervises the worker at all times, and
  • have a Risk Management Plan in place which is specific to that worker.
• You can prepare and manage your own Risk Management Plan for your worker. The Registrar requires the Plan includes how the worker supervision will be managed.
• If you are an NDIS employer and your worker commenced after 1 February 2021, they must apply for registration to work with children with NDIS endorsement. If they already have a registration to work with children then NDIS allows them to use that category until it expires.

You may have already read information about these changes, however I encourage you and your organisation to keep fully informed by visiting the CBOS website:

• www.cbos.tas.gov.au/topics/licensing-and-registration/registrations/work-with-vulnerable-people/employer-obligations
• www.cbos.tas.gov.au/topics/licensing-and-registration/registrations/work-with-vulnerable-people/rwvp-ndis-worker-screening

To help you meet your reporting obligations, I recommend you read about:

• the new employer obligations, and
• using the employer portal and User Guide.

Peter Graham

Registrar

Registration to Work with Vulnerable People