A national system to continuously monitor the criminal history of those with a working with children check will be established, but there will not be a deadline for states and territories to sign up to it.

The pilot of the National Continuous Checking Capability (NCCC) will receive $37 million from the federal government over the next five years, more than a decade after the royal commission into child sexual abuse called for such a system.

While the commonwealth will foot the bill for the NCCC, states and territories will be responsible for funding changes to their own systems that will need to be connected to it.

The pilot program will be ready for states and territories to join by the end of the year, with attorneys-general meeting in Brisbane today.

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