Screening Check

The NDIS Worker Screening Check assesses whether a person who works or seeks to work with people with disabilities poses a risk to them. It determines whether a person is cleared or excluded from working in certain roles with people with disabilities.

The NDIS Worker Screening Check is conducted by the Worker Screening Unit in the state or territory where a person applies for it. The Worker Screening Unit also decides whether a person is cleared or excluded. Registered NDIS providers must ensure that they only engage workers who have been cleared in certain roles, called risk-assessed roles.

Before the NDIS Worker Screening Check started, registered NDIS providers were required to ensure that their workers in risk-assessed roles had an acceptable check that met the transitional and special arrangements that apply to the state or territory where they provide support and services. Now that the NDIS Worker Screening Check has commenced, registered NDIS providers may be able to continue recognising a person’s acceptable check if the person does not have an NDIS worker screening clearance. The period of time that an acceptable check can continue to be recognised depends on the state or territory where the person provides support or services. Please visit the transitional and special arrangements page for more information.)