Zurich Insurance have provided a very important article about safer recruitment.
Safer recruitment is an integral part of safeguarding. If your charity or community organisation carries out any kind of work involving children or adults-at-risk, then you will have a safeguarding exposure. You will therefore need to have appropriate arrangements in place to ensure you are practising safer recruitment.
What is safer recruitment?
Safer recruitment is a set of practices designed to ensure your staff and volunteers are suitable to work with vulnerable groups, including children and adults-at-risk.
In order to practise safer recruitment, organisations need to have a clear understanding of legal safeguarding concepts such as ‘regulated activity’, and how and when to initiate certain checks on prospective staff members and volunteers.
In reality, many organisations find aspects of safer recruitment daunting and hard to get to grips with. Zurich Insurance’s Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment guide provides guidance on topics such as regulated activity and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, (formally known as CRB checks) in order to help organisations better understand their responsibilities.
Read the full article Safer recruitment and regulated activities: a guide for charities and community organisations