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A four-module distance learning programme for anyone involved in the recruitment of staff and volunteers who work or come into contact with children and young people (updated 2011).
Organisations have a responsibility to minimise the risk of recruiting the wrong person to work with children. This programme provides essential information about best practice in safer recruitment, based on the experience of organisations that work with children and current government guidance.
Safer recruitment is available in both paper-based and online formats and is delivered in four short modules with questionnaires to test understanding.
On successful completion, participants are awarded a personalised NSPCC certificate.
Module 1: Preparing to recruit
Module 2: Selecting the right people
Module 3: Vetting checks
Module 4: Maintaining vigilance
We also run face-to-face training courses related to this topic:
Safer interviewing skills will equip you with more advanced interviewing skills to explore candidates' safeguarding awareness behaviours, attitudes and motivations in relation to safeguarding children. The techniques are based on the NSPCC Value Based Interviewing model.
Creating safer organisations is aimed especially at those who have a strategic safeguarding role across their organisation.
Signposts: safer recruitment (PDF, 685KB) . This document contains links to useful websites to find out more about recruitment issues and the resources available.
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