Recruiting Safely and Fairly - Online
Category
Work Processes
Audience
Anyone involved in making or overseeing recruitment or retention decisions, including hiring managers, designated safeguarding officers and in-house lawyers.
Duration
1 day
Delegate rate
Approximately £100 per day per delegate. Charges depend on how many delegates book.
By the end of this course you’ll have a greater understanding of how you can:
- Save money on recruitment costs by getting it right first time
- Minimise any potential or perceived risks that might be involved
- Improve your workforce diversity
- Recruit from a wider pool of talent
- Meet your CSR objectives
- Improve your corporate reputation
- Avoid unnecessary and costly legal pitfalls
- Understand and apply the relevant legislation that has an impact on recruitment including: the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (ROA), the ROA Exceptions Order 1975 (as amended 2013) and the Data Protection Act 1998
- Determine what level of criminal record check is appropriate for the role
- Understand how to implement safer recruitment policies and practices
- Use the tools provided to develop effective risk assessment policies and procedures
- Learn how to interpret and manage criminal record disclosure information to inform the risk assessment process
- Learn how to gather other necessary information to carry out effective risk assessments on applicants, or existing staff and volunteers who have criminal records or have been subject to serious allegations
- Understand how to manage allegations that have been made against applicants or existing employees
