Blue cards for childcare services

You will need a blue card if you will be providing childcare as part of a commercial service, for example if you are:

• a babysitter—including babysitters under the age of 18—nanny or au pair employed by an agency or a family
• employed to provide a child-minding service, for example at a gym, hotel or kid’s club
• employed to chaperone children, for example looking after child actors on the set of a film or television show.

Under this category, you may not need a blue card if you are a parent volunteering where your child attends in any of the above areas (restricted persons cannot rely on this exemption).

Childcare is care of a child provided:

• by someone other than a relative or guardian of the child
• for reward, and
• part of a service for regularly providing care of children.