Tag
Safer Recruitment
3 recommendations
100% accepted
Tag overview
Government Response
Recommendations in This Theme
recommendation across 1 inquiry
Across 1 inquiry
Tagged Recommendations
Interview training for headteachers
Head teachers and school governors should receive training on how to ensure that interviews to appoint staff reflect the importance of safeguarding children.
Government reports this recommendation as delivered. Safer recruitment training for headteachers and school governors implemented through the DfE's Safer Recruitment initiative.
DfES
Trained panel member requirement
From a date to be agreed, no interview panel to appoint staff working in schools should be convened without at least one member being properly trained.
Government reports this recommendation as delivered. Requirement for at least one trained panel member on school interview panels implemented.
DfES
Inspection of school recruitment
The relevant inspection bodies should, as part of their inspection, review the existence and effectiveness of a school's selection and recruitment arrangements.
Government reports this recommendation as delivered. Ofsted incorporated review of school selection and recruitment arrangements into its inspection framework.
DfES