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Working With Children checks

Verify a worker's Working With Children clearance against the official register in their state or territory — and keep it verified for as long as they work with you.

Who it's for: Compliance admins in care, education, disability, and aged-care services

Availability: Available — every state and territory

What you get​

  • Check a clearance against the issuing authority rather than a photocopy of a card
  • Read one standardised, colour-coded outcome — May Engage, May Not Engage, Review Required — whatever the state
  • Let Oho re-check on your schedule, so a suspended or cancelled clearance surfaces without anyone remembering to look
  • Follow one workflow whatever the jurisdiction; Oho routes each credential to the right register
  • Keep a history of every check on the worker's profile

Turn it on​

→ Add a credential — pick the Working With Children type for the worker's state, enter the card number, and Oho checks it against that register straight away.

How it works​

Adding a Working With Children credential runs a check against that jurisdiction's register and records a standardised eligibility outcome on the worker's profile. Connect the register as a Verification Source and Oho re-verifies on the schedule you choose, updating the outcome when the register's answer changes. Each state and territory runs its own scheme, so what Oho needs — and how quickly an answer comes back — varies by jurisdiction.

→ Credentials — a page per state and territory, including what Oho needs and the card-number format → Verification Sources — which register Oho checks for each jurisdiction → One-off verification — what happens the moment a credential is added → Ongoing checks — how re-checking on a schedule works

For developers

Create the worker and credential over the REST API and receive the outcome as a credential.verified event. The payload carries the verifier code (vicwwc, nswwwc, qldblue) and the jurisdiction, so you can route on either.

→ Workers & credentials → Webhooks & event delivery

Good to know​

  • Each scheme has its own name: Queensland issues a Blue Card, the Northern Territory an Ochre Card, and Tasmania a Working with Vulnerable People registration that covers vulnerable people generally, not only children. See Credentials.
  • What Oho needs differs by state — NSW requires the holder's date of birth, and South Australia needs portal access configured for your organisation before a check can run.
  • The ACT has no public register Oho can query, so an ACT check is reviewed manually from a captured card rather than looked up in real time. See Working With Children Check (ACT).
  • Renewals flow through automatically in most states. Queensland is the exception: a renewed Blue Card must be re-checked manually. See Blue Card (QLD).
  • Review Required means valid but carrying conditions worth a person reviewing before you rely on it — not a failure.
  • Re-checking starts once the register is connected as a Verification Source. Without one the first check still runs, but nothing re-checks it later.
  • Which registers Oho can re-check against — and which are still on the way — is listed on Verification Sources. Check there before you rely on the ongoing loop for a particular jurisdiction.
  • Need a card number you don't hold? Ask the worker for it with a fetch request.