Course

Safer Recruitment

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Safer recruitment

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What you'll learn

This course is fully up to date and compliant with relevant guidance for 2023/24.  It provides all the safer recruitment know-how you need to make sure your recruitment practice meets statutory requirements and does everything possible to protect children from risk of harm.

Written by our safeguarding experts at The Key, for anyone sitting on a recruitment panel (governor or otherwise) you’ll learn about:

  • Why safer recruitment is so important
  • How to build safer recruitment practice into:
    • The application stage
    • Pre-interview checks
    • The interview
    • Pre-appointment checks
  • The single central record
  • How to maintain a safer working environment

As you progress through the course, you'll be able to download resources that will help you with different stages of the recruitment process back in school.