Blue cards for child accommodation services, including homestays

Employees and volunteers

You will need a blue card if you:

• will be providing a homestay to children through school or a homestay provider
• are over 18 and live in a home where a child accommodation service or homestay is provided.

Under this category you don't need a blue card for offering child accommodation services if you are a:

• relative of a child living in the house where the child accommodation service is being provided
• person living in the home who is under 18.

Business owners or operators

You will need a blue card if:

• the usual activities of your business include providing a child accommodation service in your home, including a homestay service
• you run a business that employs volunteers to provide child accommodation
• you run a homestay service for students.

Under this category you do not need a blue card if the activities happen at a boarding school or residential facility, or another place where a child accommodation service is provided under funding by the Australian Government or the Queensland Department of Education.