Course overview

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.

Course assessment

This course concludes with a multiple choice test with a downloadable and 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.

Once we have received your enrolment for this course, we will email you the login details you require to access the course material. Access details will typically be sent to you within 48 hours of us receiving your order.