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Worker screening: How do I apply for or renew a worker screening check?

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The short answer.

You apply to the worker screening unit in your own state or territory, not to the Commission — the check is national, so one application to one state is the whole of it, and applying in two is the common mistake the guidance names.

Renewal runs the same way, and both an application and a renewal ask for your employer's details. A check lasts up to five years.

This answer is drawn from the regulator's own published guidance rather than from the text of an instrument. The guidance's words are quoted below, from a copy of the page fetched on the date shown; if that page changes, this answer comes off rather than staying up.

The guidance's own words

You will apply for or renew your NDIS worker screening check with the worker screening unit in your state or territory . The NDIS worker screening check is a national check. Workers should only apply to the worker screening unit in one state or territory.

In your application or renewal, you’ll be asked to include the details of your employer. You must include these details for first time applications and renewals .

NDIS worker screening checks are valid for up to 5 years.

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