An accredited training session for VCFSEs in Somerset.
Safer Recruitment is a set of practices to help ensure that the staff and volunteers you hire are suitable to work with the vulnerable people you support. It’s a vital step when creating a safe and positive environment, and shows your commitment to protecting visitors and guests to your services.
Join us for this thorough, comprehensive and fully up-to-date training session, facilitated by SafeCIC, which will cover:
- Leadership, culture and safeguarding competence: minimising risks
- An overview of how people harm or offend against at risk groups, including through opportunity
- Sample job role recruitment exercise
- The key elements of best practice interviewing
- Workforce referrals to the LADO, social services, DBS and other regulatory bodies
- Self auditing
- Action planning
Attendees will receive a comprehensive digital training pack and certificate of attendance, valid for three years.
This course is continuously updated to reflect the latest revised statutory guidance.
About the trainer
Your trainer for this session will be Stuart McCallum, a retired police officer with 30 years’ exemplary service with Suffolk Constabulary. Stuart worked in a variety of roles including Protecting Vulnerable People Directorate (safeguarding); child/adult at risk/domestic abuse investigation; management of offenders in the community; child death investigation (‘SUDIC’); policy review; training, and working with statutory and third sector agencies for the majority of the last 20 years.
Stuart now provides bespoke, approved safeguarding training to adults and carries out safeguarding audits in forensic detail with SafeCIC.
This session will be suitable for all those who recruit personnel to work with children, young people and adults at risk across all sectors: from health care, leisure and education, through to charities and small community groups.
