Anyone in VIC done the police check required to continue or commence IVF post-July?

[dusty]

...seems like we all have to grin and bear it, despite how outrageously discriminatory it is on a moral and social level.

I encourage people to keep up the rage about it though. Voice your opinions to whoever may be listening, nag, complain and be angry about it. We want to avoid this happening anywhere else. May Victoria be the only place this slips into law.

Seph I would love a copy of the letter. Can you email me at Gmail, dustygal is the prefix. Cheers and thanks for the info.

[Persephone1]

Dusty, I've emailed it to you - let me know if it doesn't arrive.

[andy1]

Even tough the police check seems to have it's obvious downsides as described and nobody know where this will eventually end - who decides who is going to have children - I in some ways would agree with doing some form of a background check but obviously it's very specific as I have just found out, and I am really annoyed by this.

My wife and I just started this IVF treatment and were told that we need ot have a police check done. I thought okay, no issue as we both have a current "Working with Children Check" as we do volunteer work with children in the community. I pretty much assumed that this should be sufficient as to obtain a WWC a police records check is done and then on top of that you records are monitored on an ongoing basis.

So I asked them to accept our WWC instead of the requested police check and this was the reply:

"The cards they have are Working With Children Check cards and these checks are not conducted by Victoria Police. DHS are clear in their instructions that they will not accept a Working With Children check and a police check conducted by us must be provided."

To put it blunt this I find way out of line. If I just would start challenge that statement I would need to ask if not the Victorian Police conducts the police check who does for the WWC? How many police forces and records do we have in this country?

On a more general level one has to ask what they are trying to achive? Is it the protection of the unborn child? If yes, than one would assume that if somebody is certified to work with other people's children that should provide sufficient protection for their own children? Obviously not!

So the only conclusion here can be that somebody wanted to introduce a barrier to IVF treatment by putting a process in place that delays or prevents the treatment.

So much for the intentions of the people who introduced this legislations - now I am going to have a police check conducted by Victorian Police, not that other police that does the police checks for the WWC!

[dusty]

Hi Andy1
It seems you are caught up in the reddest of red tape . Perhaps they just haven't properly interpreted the legislation yet or are being super cautious to follow the letter of the law. Either way I hope you don't have to go through too much more invasive searches.
GL with your cycle!

[Persephone1]

Saw this in the Hun today:

New law demands police checks for childless couples | Herald Sun

The Hun was running a poll - please vote! - Poll Popup | Herald Sun

Seph