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Course contents
This training course is broken down into 5 sections
- 1 Laws, Policies and Procedures Surrounding Recruitment in Education
- 2 Pre-Employment Checks
- 3 Employees and Volunteers
- 4 Induction and Probation Period
- 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.

Presented by
Keith WickhamThe 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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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 questions 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 in Education 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.
409 real user reviews
Very informative
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Clear and concise
A clear and concise course that takes you through the safer recruitment process. Clear questions test your knowledge as you go.
Well presented, helpful and clear.
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Great Course
Content of the course material was very clear and explained the importance why safe recruitment is necessary in the Education sector.
Clear, well structured, well chunked.
I really appreciate being able to do courses like this on-line and at home.
An excellent course
Good practical guidance on all aspects of safer recruitment in education.
An excellent re-fresher course.
Thank you. I wish I could back to see the questions and answers. This would allow me to find the one I made a mistake on and learn from it.
Easy to access information
Easy to complete the course, guided through the steps with quiz at the end to check knowledge.
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.
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