Monday 6th February
Protecting children from harm through safer recruitment practice
Duration: 2 days
Aim
To equip those who are involved in the recruitment & selection of staff with the knowledge & skill necessary to establish & implement effective safer recruitment procedures & to deter inappropriate applicants from gaining access to work with children.
Outcomes
By the end of this 2 day event, participants will be able to explain:
- the legal responsibility of the organisation to protect children in their recruitment & retention procedure as well as ensuring the rights of any person about whom a concern has been raised are safeguarded
- and implement the Warner Report recommendations in the recruitment and selection of residential staff
- the agency recruitment, interview & selection policy & procedure in place
- the checks that need to be in place to prevent & detect abuse
- why & how any 'bad' feelings about any staff member must be followed up
- the potential cost of failure to comply with the Warner recommendations
- the cost & impact on a child through failure to protect
- how quality control and safer practice includes recruitment, selection, induction, the probationary period, appraisal, supervision & monitoring
- what we can learn from research and from abusers, that can help us to create a safer environment for children
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