SAFER RECRUITMENT – TRAINER PROGRAMME
Become an Accredited ‘Safer Recruitment’ Trainer
Who is it for?
This course is designed for people who wish to become SR trainers. Accordingly participants will wish to:
- Develop their familiarity with SR materials
- Learn and practice the format of the SR training day
- Learn how to deliver the course
- Acquaint themselves with up-to-date exercises.
HOW WILL THIS HELP?
Participants acquire the skills needed to deliver one-day accredited SR training. By the end of our two-day course, participants will have learned how to deliver training which:
- Identifies key features of staff recruitment that help deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people
- Considers policies and practices that minimise opportunities for abuse or ensure its prompt reporting
- Enables participants to review their own organisation’s policies and practices with a view to making them safe
Successful participants will be able to enrol on the SR Consortium’s register of accredited SR Trainers, able to deliver

Delivered by an authorised ‘train-the-trainer’ facilitator, course content includes:
- 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
- Using criminal records information
- Setting acceptable standards of behaviour
- Maintaining an ongoing culture of vigilance
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