At least 1 member of a recruitment board has to have been trained in Safer Recruitment

  • Human Resources
  • 40 languages
  • 45m

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the laws and policies surrounding recruitment in the education sector and stop dangerous people gaining access to students
  • Understand what DBS checks are and how they work
  • Learn about the need for follow ups and probationary periods to check the right person has been appointed

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 5 sections

  1. 1
    Laws, Policies and Procedures Surrounding Recruitment in Education
  2. 2
    Pre-Employment Checks
  3. 3
    Employees and Volunteers
  4. 4
    Induction and Probation Period
  5. 5
    The Safer Recruitment Process

About this course

Whether you’re recruiting staff or volunteers for a school, college, sixth form college, sports club, pupil referral unit, in residential education, an activities centre, or a centre for vulnerable adults, this Safer Recruitment course will give you the tools you need to make sure you hire the right people.

There are approximately 50,000 people barred from working with children and vulnerable adults in the UK, and this number is growing every year. So, it’s absolutely crucial that you have a rigorous recruitment process, with a system of robust checks and safeguards in place.

This Safer Recruitment course covers everything you need to know from writing a job description, through to shortlisting, doing checks and references, interviewing, and using induction and probationary periods to make sure you’ve made the right choice.

Help keep children and vulnerable adults safe from potential abuse and meet your safeguarding obligations by making sure you know exactly who you’re hiring with our Safer Recruitment in Education Training.

Looking for a more generic safeguarding course? Take a look at our Safeguarding Children Training. We also provide a wider range of online safeguarding courses.

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The importance of Safer Recruitment in Education Training

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Available in 40 languages

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Our most popular languages

Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
Lithuanian

Safer Recruitment certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Safer Recruitment in Education Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Safer Recruitment Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

447 real user reviews

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Really useful refresher course

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Clearly laid out, good checks of learning.

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Great summary of safer recruitment process

Informative and easy to understand, the training course covers all of safer recruitment and sets the conditions under which we should conduct our staff selection programme.

very informative

I found the course very informative and it gave me a wider knowledge of what is expected, I enjoyed this course.

woman can be safeguarding risk

Should have more images of women as potentially unsafe – looks a bit like only men are a risk. Some test questions are rather convoluted to read. Otherwise very clear.

Very informative

Clearly presented, easy to access and understand. Diversity of presenters. Interactive.

Not really relevant to HE settings

Focus is entirely on schools

it was okay

This user gave this course a rating of 4/5 stars

Why is this training important?

Business benefits

While there is no direct legislation that corresponds to Safer Recruitment in Education, the Gov.uk website states that:

It is vital that schools and colleges create a culture of safe recruitment and, as part of that, adopt recruitment procedures that help deter, reject or identify people who might abuse children. Governing bodies and proprietors must act reasonably in making decisions about the suitability of the prospective employee based on checks and evidence including criminal record checks (DBS checks), barred list checks and prohibition checks together with references and interview information.

Gov.uk website

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