A loophole within the Queensland blue card system will be closed, with applicants not able to begin work with children until their applications are finalised.
The system will be given $17 million over the course of the next three years to ensure a new ‘no card, no start’ law is introduced.
Previously applicants could start work with children as long as they had begun the application process.
However, the priority of protecting children has resulted in the states new laws.