Queensland's non-public Child Protection Register

Child protection registers are not intended to be punitive in nature but are implemented to protect the community by reducing the likelihood that an offender will reoffend and to facilitate the investigation and prosecution of any future offences that they may commit.

The Child Protection Register established by the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004 is a non-public register. This means that only certain people within the Queensland Police Service can access the information held on the Child Protection Register.

The Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Act 2025 was introduced to strengthen Queensland’s response to child sexual offending. In particular, for the first time in Queensland’s history, it enables members of the public to access certain information held on the Child Protection Register. Under the Making Queensland Safer suite of laws, the Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register strengthens Queensland’s existing legislation governing the release of people convicted of reportable (prescribed) offences under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004.

The Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004 defines who is a reportable offender, the length of reporting obligations, the nature of those obligations and how offenders can be policed once they complete their sentence.