Bill
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Amendment (Worker Screening Database) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2020-02-11. (s) SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Rebekha Sharkie
- Portfolio
- (s) SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-07-22
- second reading — 2019-07-22
- other — 2020-02-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-07-22.
The bill would create a national worker screening database for aged care staff.
All paid and unpaid workers would be screened before their details are entered into a register kept by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.
Employers would check the database for warning signs such as criminal records, reportable incidents or disciplinary findings.
- Establishes a database for nationally consistent worker screening.
- Requires all workers and volunteers in aged care to undergo screening.
- Lets employers search the database for a worker's history of misconduct.
- Includes criminal history, reportable incidents and disciplinary proceedings in the database.
Workers, volunteers and employers in the aged care sector, plus state and territory governments that would need to enact matching laws.
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