Safer recruitment in education
Be confident your school is meeting its safer recruitment requirements. This essential 2-hour course helps all staff involved in recruitment understand their responsibilities under KCSIE, at all stages of the process.
Who it's for
Those involved in recruiting, including safer recruitment leads
This course provides all the safer-recruitment know-how you need to make sure your recruitment practice meets statutory requirements and does everything possible to protect children from risk of harm.
In approximately 2 hours, you'll learn about:
- Why safer recruitment is so important
- How to build safer recruitment into practice into:
- The application stage
- Pre-interview checks
- The interview
- Pre-appointment checks
- The single central record
- How to maintain a safer working environment
As you progress through the course, you'll be able to download resources that will help you with different stages of the recruitment process back in school.
You'll also receive a certificate to confirm you have completed the course.
Course updates
We've updated this course to reflect changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE 2026). This includes the updated definition of 'regulated activity' for volunteers that applies from 1 September 2026.