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Safeguarding Children & Recruitment

Safeguarding children, safeguarding procedures and safer recruitment solutions are very important to schools and colleges. Not just for the obvious reasons of protecting the safety of pupils but because of the inspections OFSTED conducts on ares of child protection.  

 

There is not another recruitment agency in the market more committed to safeguarding children than Aspire People. We have a fool-proof system that guarantees the safety of not just your pupils and staff but the reputation of the school. We do everything we can to protect our clients and support them with their vetting and recruitment procedures.

 

This ensures that your school meets safeguarding children recruitment guidelines issued by the department for education and OFSTED. 

 

We know what we are talking about

Every employee at Aspire People takes child protection very seriously, it runs through the veins of our culture.

Who ever you deal with at Aspire People, you can be sure that they are qualified to conduct safer recruitment to the highest of standards.

Not only does every employee undergo internal training but they are not signed off until they have passed the examination on safer recruitment.

Further to this our staff attend LEA safer recruitment training. This covers:

  • The importance of child protection
  • Holding a position of trust
  • Responsibility
  • How to conduct safer recruitment. 

 

Safer Recruitment to protect your children

No matter whether Aspire People place a fully qualified teacher or a caretaker in to a school or college, every candidate is taken through the following steps:

  • Telephone Interview
  • Face to Face interview
  • Full vetting and referencing inline with the Safeguarding Children Quality Mark
  • Safeguarding children induction and test
  • Sign child protection code of conduct
  • Safer recruitment features strongly in our employee induction training

You can be sure that Aspire People has gone to great lengths to ensure that children, schools and colleges and the staff that work inside them are protected.

 

Ongoing commitment to School protection

It is not just about vetting every candidate above DfE standards. Aspire People go to great lengths to leave an audit trail which OFSTED can follow.
On top of this who is to know whether the person standing in front of you is the candidate Aspire People has sent?
To solve this problem we have put a unique system in place called 5 Protection Points:
  1. Before their arrival, you will get a photographic safeguarding children document
  2. Each candidate will bring a passport or driving license and a CRB
  3. All candidates are issued with an Aspire People photo ID badge
  4. Check the safeguarding document against their ID, CRB and Aspire People badge
  5. The safeguarding children document is a receipt that you have ensure your agency has completed all vetting checks. Store everyone on file. 

This full-proof system ensures that the individual arriving at your school is the candidate Aspire People has sent.

Download our Safer Recruitment Policies

Download our Child Protection Policy Statement

Download a list of our vetting procedures


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We often get information on safeguarding before we hear it in school

Aspire People is professional, informative and extremely helpful.  Communication has always been excellent, both by email and telephone. We are often given information on safeguarding practices before we have even heard them in school.

Mrs. Beechey, The Crestwood School
Cover Co-Ordinator