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If you’ve ever found yourself rifling through drawers for a crumpled birth certificate, Victoria’s latest digital update may come as a welcome relief. To make life admin a whole lot easier, the Victorian Government has begun rolling out digital birth certificates, giving parents fast, secure access to one of life’s most important documents – right from your phone.
The digital birth certificate trial is now live across three local government areas: Wyndham City Council, the City of Casey and Mitchell Shire Council. Parents in these regions can log in to the Service Victoria app today and add their child’s birth certificate directly to the app’s digital wallet, making enrolments for kindy (and other early learning programs) a lot simpler.
Announced this week, the initiative is designed to remove a familiar headache from family life.
“The digital birth certificate will make it quicker and easier for Victorian parents to enrol their kids into kinder,” said Minister for Government Services Danny Pearson, noting that having instant access to the document means “one less thing to worry about”.
According to the Victorian Government, the digital certificate is an option, not a replacement. Physical birth certificates will continue to be issued to all Victorians, and parents will be able to choose whether or not to use the digital version too. For those who opt in, the digital certificate sits alongside other official documents already available in the Service Victoria wallet, including digital driver’s licences, seniors cards and veterans cards.
The move is part of a broader push to modernise how Victorians interact with government services. More than 170 services are now accessible online or through the Service Victoria app, covering everything from schooling to healthcare. According to Pearson, the aim is to make government services easier and more efficient to use, especially at busy life stages like early parenthood.
Member for Point Cook Mathew Hilakari has encouraged local families to take part in the trial, calling it a safer and more convenient way to store birth certificates while streamlining kinder enrolments.
Keen to make family admin a little more efficient? You can find out more over here.
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