This safer recruitment training for nurseries covers the policies, checks and legal responsibilities that protect children from the moment you advertise a vacancy. Every early years and childcare setting has a legal responsibility to take all possible steps — as part of standard due diligence — to prevent dangerous or potentially dangerous people from gaining access to the children in their care.
While that duty applies to every adult in your setting, the greatest area of safeguarding risk sits within the recruitment of new staff and volunteers. This course walks you through the recruitment process in detail, so your setting can evidence thorough suitability and background checks for employees, and appropriate checking and supervision for volunteers, contractors and visitors.
What you’ll learn
- What safer recruitment is and why it is so important in a childcare setting
- How to make your recruitment process as robust as possible to protect the children in your care
- The suitability and background checks required for new staff and volunteers
- How volunteers, contractors and visitors should be checked and supervised
- Why a thorough induction and a suitable probationary period for new staff are essential
- The laws and statutory requirements related to safer recruitment in childcare
- The recruitment policies your setting should have in place
Who this course is for
This course is designed for nursery managers, owners and deputies, and for any member of staff involved in recruiting, inducting or supervising new employees and volunteers. Because safer recruitment responsibilities extend to how all adults in a setting are checked and supervised, it also gives room leaders valuable context.
Why this training matters
Safer recruitment is a legal responsibility, not just good practice. The course focuses on meeting all statutory requirements for safer recruitment training while giving you a wider understanding of your setting’s responsibilities whenever you recruit. Robust policies, thorough checks and well-planned probationary periods are the foundation of a safeguarding culture — and your completion certificate provides evidence for compliance and audit.
How the course works
The course is delivered online through media-rich learning with voiceovers, so you can study on any device, at your own pace. The guided duration is around one hour, so it fits comfortably alongside a busy management workload.
Your certificate
Successful candidates are awarded the National Nursery Training Safer Recruitment Course Completion Certificate, which can be used as evidence for compliance and audit. National Nursery Training is an NFAQ-accredited provider and an accredited CPD Training Provider (#776846) with the CPD Accreditation Group.
