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Police, Child Safety, and Working With Children Check

Australian Police Check (Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check - NCCHC)

A police check is mandatory for all students undertaking a health placement. If you’re completing an education placement or a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) subject, a police check may also be required, depending on your placement provider. Your Placement Team will confirm if a police check is needed for your placement.

If you already have a police check, it must be issued within six months of your course commencement to be valid. Otherwise, if you don’t have one or if it falls outside this timeframe, you can apply through fit2work, which offers current students a discounted rate and a faster processing time. Remember to always use your @student.latrobe.edu.au email address when accessing your fit2work invitation link, as using @students.ltu.edu.au will cause activation and access issues.

If you use another Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) accredited provider, or Australian police agency, you’ll need to upload your police check document to InPlace for the Placement Team to review (La Trobe login required).

For interstate placements, your Placement Officer will notify you if a different police check is required.

For more information, refer to:

InPlace upload instructions: If you apply for your police check through fit2work using the link provided to you, upload your reference number to InPlace—no document upload is needed. If you use a different provider or if you don’t use the La Trobe fit2work link initiated by your Placement Officer, you must upload both your police check document and reference number to InPlace for the Placements Team to review (La Trobe login required).

Visit the Placement Partnering and Operations LMS site for a step-by-step guide (La Trobe login required).

Child Safety Standards

If you are enrolled in a course that includes placement, you are required to complete the University’s Child Safe Standards Training on LMS [La Trobe log in required]. This training includes four modules and a quiz. Upon successful completion of the quiz, you'll receive a certificate and your results will be automatically synchronised to InPlace within one week.

The La Trobe Child Safety Standards are based on the Standards included in the Child Safe and Wellbeing Act 2005 and Victorian Child Safe Standards, and aim to strengthen laws to protect children from sexual abuse and exposure to sexual offenders. More information in our statement on Child Safety.

Working with Children Check

Any person who is doing child-related work is required by law to hold a valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) at all times. If you are completing a health or education placement, you must obtain a WWCC and enter your Victorian WWCC reference number on InPlace, before you can attend any placement. If you are completing a WIL subject, it is important to ask your organisation contact or supervisor whether you will need to provide a WWCC before starting.

Applications for a WWCC can be completed by following the WWCC Application Procedure [PDF 133KB] and are free for students to complete.

For more information on WWCC’s, please refer to the Working with Children Check FAQs [PDF 154KB] and the Working with Children Check Guidelines [PDF 184KB].

It’s important to remember that the WWCC is a Victorian check only, so if you complete a placement in another state you made need to obtain the equivalent check in that state.

InPlace upload instructions: You only need to enter your Victorian WWCC reference number to InPlace, by the discipline specific deadline. For all non-Victorian WWCCs, we still require you to upload a copy of your WWCC card.

See these instructions: Uploading health placement documents to InPlace [PDF 488KB]

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