Safer recruitment and safe working practice with children
Schools and early years settings must ensure children are able to develop and learn in a safe environment.
This involves ensuring that those who work with children in schools and early years settings are suitable and safe to work with children. Parts 3 & 4 of Keeping Children Safe in Education provide specific guidance on Safer Recruitment (Part 3) and Managing safeguarding concerns or allegations about staff (Part 4).
In addition to KCSiE guidance the following may also be useful
Local Procedures and Guidance:
- Shropshire Safeguarding Community Partnership Managing Allegations against those who work with children
- Shropshire Council Schools HR Policies and Templates (for schools with a Service Level Agreement): see link below.
- Shropshire Council Health and Safety, Premises and Security Services in Schools (see link below)
National Guidance
- Safer Recruitment Consortium have specific “Guidance for Safer Working Practice for professionals working in education settings”
- Farrer and Co Guidance: Developing and implementing a low-level concerns policy: a guide for organisations which work with children (farrer.co.uk)
- DfE SCR Webinar (Feb 2023)
Training
- Shropshire Council HR Service provide training and other consultancy services for schools (such as Single Central Record Audits) . Further information can be found here