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Safer Recruitment Consortium Accredited Certificate

Thursday 28 January, 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

🏷️ From £235
🎧 HR Teams, Senior Leadership, Governors and Trustees
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✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass

Course outline:

This accredited training course is the widely accepted UK standard for safer recruitment recognised by the government. In line with statutory guidance, every recruitment panel involved in appointing individuals to work with children must include at least one member who has completed appropriate safer recruitment training.
Delivered by an approved Safer Recruitment Consortium trainer, this course reflects current legislation and best practice, drawing on updates to the national Guidance for Safer Working Practice to address evolving expectations around professional conduct.
Developed for the education sector by the Safer Recruitment Consortium, the programme has been expanded to cover all settings involving working with children.

Training topics will include:

  • 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.

Learning outcomes:

  • CPD/Certification: All participants will receive an accredited SRC course completion certificate alongside participant guidance handbooks. 

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This event is held in collaboration with:

 

 

Speaker:

Steve Hall, Chair of the National LADO Network

Steve brings over 40 years of experience as a qualified social worker and Service Manager in Social Care for various Local Authorities with a background of Front door services, assessment, Child Protection, care experienced children, Children with Disabilities, and Quality Assurance.

He is an experienced LADO and held the elected role of Chair of the National LADO Network for over 6 years, stepping down recently in order to focus on training commitments. Steve is an experienced trainer, providing tailored safeguarding training to a variety of settings. He also provides consultancy, including investigations, safeguarding audits, for a wide range of sectors, including the police, Faith, Sports, Fostering, Education, Early Years and Youth Services.

 

Details

Organisers

  • The Boarding Schools’ Association (BSA)
  • The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association (Sacpa)

Venue

  • Online – Zoom