Upcoming Events and Bookings

Target Audience:

For any individual involved in recruitment and selection and/or responsible for school’s single central register or for anyone requiring refresher training (2 years plus)

Overview of workshop:

A workshop covering Safer Recruitment practice and the wider context of safeguarding.

• Safer recruitment and the wider context of safeguarding
• Prevalence of abuse and profile of abusers*
• How abusers operate within organisations
• Features of a safer recruitment process
• Planning a safer recruitment process
• Making the right decisions: interview and selection
• Setting acceptable standards of behaviour
• Maintaining an ongoing culture of vigilance

*This aspect of the workshop involves listening to an audio recording of the words of a former abuser.  Some participants may find this material unsettling, and the trainer will seek to ensure that you are given the opportunity to withdraw from the workshop at that point, if requested.

Additional Information:

Delegates are required to bring their own lunch. (Refreshments will be provided)

PARKING:

Car-parking is available for visitors to the Atkins Centre and Centre Staff alike at the front of the school, please enter by the gates from Sevenoaks Way (opposite Cornwall Drive). Please do not park in unmarked spaces, or in marked visitors’ spaces (unless previously booked). Parking is provided on a first come, first served, basis. If there are no spaces available there is alternative parking for Atkins Centre visitors on the roads surrounding the College. Please use the pedestrian access at the front of the College on Sevenoaks Way, if necessary.

Visitors to the Atkins Centre are advised that under no circumstances are they to seek to park/gain access via the rear of the College, to ensure the College maintains its safeguarding responsibilities.

DRESS CODE:

Just a reminder that all attendees are expected to be dressed in a professional and business-like manner unless otherwise stated in the event details.