Good Practice Guidance for Safeguarding Children in the Recruitment and Selection Process
Experience over recent years shows that it is important for organisations that provide services to children to incorporate into their recruitment and selection procedures measures that help deter, reject or identify people who might abuse children, or who are otherwise unsuited to work with them.
Making safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children an integral part of human resources (HR) management in organisations that work with children is an essential part of creating safe environments.
The need for this was highlighted by the Soham case and the findings and recommendations contained in Sir Michael Bichard’s report into that case (2004). However, the principles are not new; similar messages appeared from Sir Norman Warner’s 1992 report Choosing with Care, which examined recruitment and selection in residential children’s homes.
Tameside Safeguarding Children Board have developed these Good Practice Guidelines derived from the statutory guidance for schools ‘Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education’ DCS&F 2006 (now Department for Education). TSCB envisage that all agencies use these good practice guidelines to embed the necessary safeguards into their own existing selection and recruitment policies.
This document is intended to be used by all agencies who deliver services to children and young people in Tameside. The same principles apply whether staff are paid or volunteers.
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