Your job is to make sure the SCR is being monitored – not to check it yourself
The single central record (SCR) is the central record of the safeguarding checks that have been carried out on all staff and other relevant people.
Many governing boards assign a governor – usually the governor with responsibility for safeguarding – to regularly check the SCR themselves to make sure it complies with the requirements under Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
School leaders: carry out the operational task of physically checking the SCR and making sure all of the relevant boxes are complete and that the document as a whole is up to date Governors: are responsible for the strategic task of monitoring that school leaders are keeping up with their statutory duties. They do this by asking the right questions about how