We've all heard the news regarding child care centres and the Working With Children check. My complaint is that the coverage is spread so wide, it has become unmanagable.
I am a volunteer at our Men's Shed. I don't do much because most of the guys don't need help with what I was accepted for - assistance with computers, internet, email accounts and digital photography.
What do those two thoughts have to do with each other? As a volunteer, I am considered an employee of the company which runs the shed. In other operations of the company, three suburbs away, they have activities involving children. As an employee of the company, I am required to hold a Working With Children certificate and undergo police checks, even though the youngest person through our doors would be over 50. What a waste of admin and police effort.