In this free online course, learn how to implement safer recruitment policies and procedures in your company. This course will teach you the importance of safe recruitment for people who want to work with vulnerable children and adults. It will help you recognise the risks to vulnerable groups when the wrong people are hired or allowed to work as volunteers. You will become familiar with the procedures and protocols needed to ensure that mistakes are not made when hiring people for regulated activities who work directly with children or adults.
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Explain the meaning of safe recruitment and its requirements • Summarise the risks to children and adults if safer recruitment principles are not applied • Outline safe recruiting policies and procedures • Discuss the process of writing and implementing the safe recruiting policies • Summarise the criminal checks and procedural differences in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland • Explain the procedures for vetting and implications of barring checks • Outline the importance of onboarding your staff to create a culture of safety and professionalism • Describe the various aspects of safeguarding people at risk when volunteers are involved • Summarise different types of legislation and guidelines that protect children and adults at risk |
| Course Code | 4542 |

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