Registration here is unusual in this database because it is not one decision but a package: meeting the Practice Standards, holding worker screening clearances for key personnel and risk-assessed workers, and passing an independent quality audit paid for by the applicant and conducted by a third-party body the applicant engages.

That audit is the substantive step. It is also the step whose duration the Commission does not control, which is why elapsed time here is only loosely related to anything the regulator does.

The 2026 compression. Two things landed in the same year. From 1 July 2026 further provider categories moved into mandatory registration, with affected providers required to be registered or to have lodged by 1 October 2026. At the same time the first wave of five-year worker screening clearances issued in 2021 began expiring from February 2026.

New registrations and clearance renewals therefore hit the same queues simultaneously. That is a foreseeable scheduling collision rather than a regulatory failure, and it is exactly the kind of thing this database exists to make visible in advance rather than after: two independently sensible commencement dates, chosen by different people, that intersect in one workforce.