This session will be run remotely, on the two mornings of 3rd and 4th May 2022 via Zoom.   

The course is accredited and has been produced by the Safer Recruitment Consortium, a partnership between four organisations with the safety and wellbeing of children at their heart:

• NSPCC


• Lucy Faithfull Foundation


• The National Association of Independent Schools & Non-Maintained Special Schools (NASS)


• Child Protection in Education (CAPE)

Safer Recruitment workshop content:

• Safer recruitment and the wider context of safeguarding


• Prevalence of abuse and profile of abusers


• How abusers operate within organisations


• Features of a safer recruitment process


• Planning a safer recruitment process


• Making the right decisions: interview and selection


• Setting acceptable standards of behaviour


• Maintaining an ongoing culture of vigilance

ASSESSMENT

A standard assessment has been provided to cover the workshop content.  The questions relevant to each session will be delivered at the end of each session, 13 questions in total.

Practitioners:

• will have an awareness and understanding of offender behaviour


• will be able to identify the key features of staff recruitment that helps deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people


• will be able to consider policies and practices that minimise opportunities for abuse


• will begin to review their own and their settings policies and practices, with a view to making them safe

Settings

• will be safer organisations


• will comply with government guidance and legislation