Restricted employment and restricted person declaration

This form confirms a person's eligibility to work in restricted employment and declare they are not a restricted person under the Working with Children (Risk Management and Screening) Act 2000.

Restricted employment allows a person to work or volunteer with children without needing to hold a blue card in certain situations.

Significant penalties apply to:

• organisations who engage a restricted person in restricted employment

• individuals who are in restricted employment as a restricted person.

For information about an individual's obligations under the blue card system, visit www.qld.gov.au/bluecardindividuals.

Restricted person declaration

A restricted person is:

• a disqualified person

• A person convicted of a disqualifying offence – regardless of the penalty and when and where it occurred. Some examples include:

  • Sexual conduct with a child

  • Child exploitation material offences

  • Rape or other serious sexual offences (child or adult)

  • Murder

  • Choking, suffocation or strangulation in a domestic setting

• A reportable offender under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004

• The subject of an offender prohibition order under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004

• a person who has been charged with a disqualifying offence and the matter has not yet been finalised.

• a suspended blue or exemption card holder

• a negative notice holder

• the subject of an adverse interstate Working with Children Check decision that is in effect.