Child Safe Standards and Reportable Conduct Scheme information has moved to this site.
Responsibility transferred to SSR from the Commission for Children and Young People in February 2026.
Organisations
Victoria’s Reportable Conduct Scheme applies to organisations that exercise care, supervision or authority over children, as part of their primary functions or otherwise. The types of organisations the Reportable Conduct Scheme applies to include:
long day and occasional care providers
kindergartens
out of school hours care (OSHC) providers.
registered government or non-government schools
organisations that are registered in respect of an accredited senior secondary course or registered senior secondary qualification
accredited foundation secondary courses or registered foundation secondary qualifications
organisations that provide certain courses to students from overseas and/or operate an overseas student exchange program.
religious organisations that exercise care, supervision or authority over children.
organisations that provide residential services for children with a disability
registered disability service providers
non-registered disability services.
out-of-home care services
state funded organisations that provide child protection related services.
Victorian government departments that exercise care, supervision or authority over children.
public health services
public, private or denominational hospitals
mental health services provider with in-patient beds
state funded organisations that provide drug or alcohol treatment services with in-patient beds.
state funded housing services or organisations that provide other assistance to homeless persons with overnight beds for children and young people
organisations that operate a residential facility for a boarding school.
organisations that provide overnight camps for children as part of its primary activity and are not a youth organisations
youth organisations that provide overnight camps for children as part of their primary activity.
Some legislated bodies of a public nature, including but not limited to:
The Melbourne Zoo
Phillip Island Nature Park
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
National Gallery of Victoria
If you are unsure whether your organisation is required to comply with the Reportable Conduct Scheme, contact us.
People
The Reportable Conduct Scheme applies to the conduct of the following types of people employed or engaged by an organisation that is in scope for the Reportable Conduct Scheme:
employees
volunteers
contractors
office holders
ministers of religion
officers of a religious body
foster and kinship carers in a formal care arrangement
workers or volunteers provided by labour hire agencies, companies or other providers
secondees
individual business owners who employ or engage staff
directors of companies where the director performs work for the organisation.
The Reportable Conduct Scheme only applies to the conduct of a person who is 18 years or older where the alleged conduct is against, with, or in the presence of a child who is under 18 years.
Allegations can be made about conduct that occurs inside or outside of the workplace.
If you are unsure about whether an individual’s conduct is covered by the Reportable Conduct Scheme, contact us.
