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Breadth of verifiables

Everything Oho can confirm against an official source — clearances, professional registrations, work entitlement, exemptions, and disqualification registers.

Who it's for: Anyone scoping whether Oho covers the checks their workforce needs

Availability: Available

What you get​

  • Real-time verification against the issuing authority, not a self-declared copy of a card
  • Coverage of every state and territory scheme, with Oho routing each credential to the right register
  • One standardised, colour-coded outcome whatever the register, so results read the same way across the board
  • The same treatment for exemptions and ban checks as for credentials — all three are things Oho can confirm
  • A place to record the credentials no register can answer for, tracked by expiry instead

Turn it on​

→ Add a credential — pick the type, enter the number, and Oho checks it against the official source straight away.

Verifiables​

A verifiable is anything Oho can confirm against an official source rather than taking someone's word for it. There are three kinds — credentials (the clearances and registrations a worker holds), exemptions (requirements they're formally excused from), and ban checks (registers that should stop them working). Each is confirmed by a check, and each check returns the same set of outcomes.

Each of these is checked the moment you record it. Keeping that answer true afterwards is a separate job — see Employment verification.

Working With Children (WWC) checks​

The clearance a person must hold to do child-related work. Oho recognises each state's and territory's version, routes the check to that jurisdiction's register, and returns a standardised eligibility outcome. The ACT is the exception: it has no register Oho can query, so an ACT card is captured and reviewed by a person.

Availability: Available — all states and territories; the ACT is capture only

NDIS Worker Screening​

A national criminal-history and risk-assessment check for workers delivering NDIS supports and services. Oho verifies the resulting clearance and monitors it for status changes over its life.

Availability: Available — one national clearance, recognised in every state and territory

AHPRA registration​

The national registration held by practitioners in Australia's regulated health professions. One national register covers the whole country, so there is no state-by-state check to run.

Availability: Available — one national register, no state-by-state checks

Teacher registration​

Registration with the state or territory teaching authority. A person can hold registrations in more than one state at once, and Oho tracks each one separately.

Availability: Available — every state and territory teaching authority

  • Learn the concept → Credentials — a page per state's teacher registration, including what Oho needs
  • Which register → Verification Sources — VIT, QCT, NESA, and each Teacher Registration Board

Right to Work (Visa / VEVO)​

Confirms a person is legally entitled to work in Australia — work rights, any conditions on them, and visa expiry — against the Department of Home Affairs VEVO system.

Availability: Available

Ban and disqualification registers​

Where a credential confirms someone is cleared, a ban check does the opposite: it makes sure a worker isn't on a register that should stop them working, and flags it if they are newly added.

Availability: Available — aged-care banning orders

Exemptions​

Records that a worker is formally excused from a requirement they would otherwise need to meet. Where the exemption is verifiable, Oho confirms it with the issuing body rather than relying on the worker's say-so.

Availability: Available

Custom credentials​

A credential type your organisation defines itself, for the things the catalogue doesn't cover — an internal compliance course, a First Aid certificate, a licence, a company induction. There is no register behind these, so Oho tracks their expiry instead of querying an authority.

Availability: Available — recorded and expiry managed, not register verified

The full catalogue​

Every verifiable Oho supports, and where it goes to check it. Follow a link for what Oho needs, the number format, and how to read the result.

VerifiableChecked againstCoverage
Working With Children CheckEach state's and territory's register, except the ACTVIC · NSW · QLD · SA · WA · TAS · NT · ACT (capture only)
NDIS Worker ScreeningThe screening sourceOne national clearance, recognised everywhere
AHPRA registrationRegister of PractitionersAustralia-wide, all regulated health professions
Teacher registrationEach state's and territory's teaching authorityNSW · VIC · QLD · SA · WA · TAS · NT
Right to WorkHome Affairs VEVOVisa status, conditions, and expiry
Ban checksACQSC banning ordersAged-care banning orders
ExemptionsThe issuing body, where the exemption is verifiableQLD Blue Card exemption, and your own records
Custom credentialsNo register — expiry managedAny type your organisation defines

→ Verification Sources — every register and authority Oho connects to, and what each one needs from you

How it works​

Recording a verifiable runs a check against its source straight away and records a standardised outcome on the worker's profile. Every check returns the same small set of outcomes, colour-coded, whatever the register behind it — so a Victorian WWC card and an AHPRA registration read the same way on the same profile.

→ Core Entities — verifiables, outcomes, and how they roll up → One-off verification — what happens the moment a verifiable is recorded → Credentials — the full credential catalogue, type by type

For developers

Create workers and their verifiables over the REST API and receive each outcome as a webhook event. List supported credential types returns the catalogue programmatically, so you don't hard-code it.

→ Workers & credentials → Bans, exemptions & police checks → Webhooks & event delivery

Good to know​

  • What Oho needs varies by type — number formats, whether a date of birth is required, and how names are matched are all documented on each verifiable's own page.
  • A verifiable is only re-checked once its register is connected as a Verification Source. The first check runs either way; the ongoing loop needs the source.
  • Custom credentials have no authority to query, so they're tracked by expiry rather than verified. See Employment verification.
  • Don't see a check you need? Email support@weareoho.com — the catalogue grows, and the API returns the current list.