Poor recruitment checks
Failure to gather and record all necessary information for recruitment purposes, potentially leading to unsuitable staff being hired.
24 items
1 source
3 inquiries
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Inquiry recommendation
64match
FR-11 - Extend Disclosure Regime Overseas
The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Children Outside the United Kingdom Phase 2 Investigation Report, dated January 2020) that the UK government introduces legislation permitting the Disclosure and Barring Service to provide enhanced certificates with barred list checks to citizens and residents of England and Wales applying for: work or volunteering with UK-based organisations, where the...
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terms: check, recruitment
Inquiry recommendation
61match
54 - Lambeth foster carer vetting review
Lambeth Council should review the application of recruitment and vetting procedures for all current foster carers directly provided by Lambeth Council, to ensure that the procedures have been followed correctly. In addition, Lambeth Council should seek assurances from external agencies and other local authorities, in which children in the care of Lambeth Council have been placed, that recruitment...
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terms: recruitment
Inquiry recommendation
57match
31 - DBS and training compliance for Church officers
Individuals engaged in regulated activity who have failed to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check or complete compulsory training should not be permitted to hold voluntary offices within the Church. Failure by ordained clergy to comply with either requirement should result in disciplinary proceedings.
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Inquiry recommendation
53match
34 - DBS certificates for overseas work
The Home Office should introduce legislation permitting the Disclosure and Barring Service to provide enhanced certificates to UK nationals and residents of England and Wales applying for: 1. work or volunteering with UK-based organisations, where the recruitment decision is taken outside the UK; or 2. work or volunteering with organisations based outside the UK, in each case where...
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terms: recruitment
Inquiry recommendation
53match
R30 - Overseas applicant checking
Proposals should be brought forward as soon as possible to improve the checking of people from overseas who want to work with children and vulnerable adults.
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terms: check
Inquiry recommendation
53match
R28 - Broader consent on Police Check Form
The consents that applicants currently give on the 'Police Check Form' should be sufficiently broad to enable the requisite checks to be undertaken.
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terms: check
Inquiry recommendation
49match
62 - Schools notify inspectorate of DBS referrals
The Department for Education and the Welsh Government should: require schools to inform the relevant inspectorate when they have referred a member of staff to the Disclosure and Barring Service, the Teaching Regulation Agency or the Education Workforce Council; and include in the national standards for local authority designated officers a requirement that local authority designated officers should...
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Inquiry recommendation
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FR-9 - Greater Use of DBS
The Inquiry recommends that the UK government enables any person engaging an individual to work or volunteer with children on a frequent basis to check whether or not they have been barred by the Disclosure and Barring Service from working with children. These arrangements should also apply where the role is undertaken on a supervised basis.
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terms: check
Inquiry recommendation
48match
R27 - Information verification confirmation
Registered Bodies should be required to confirm that they have checked the information on the 'Police Check Form' in accordance with CRB guidance.
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terms: check
Inquiry recommendation
45match
35 - Mandatory DBS for work with children overseas
The Home Office should introduce legislation making it mandatory for: 1. all UK nationals and residents of England and Wales to provide a prospective employer overseas with an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate before undertaking work with children overseas which if in the UK would be a regulated activity; and 2. UK government departments and agencies to...
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Inquiry recommendation
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33 - Assessment of potential risks posed by foster carers and residential care staff
Nottingham City Council should assess the potential risks posed by current and former foster carers directly provided by the council in relation to the sexual abuse of children. They should also ensure that current and former foster carers provided by external agencies are assessed by those agencies. Any concerns which arise should be referred to the appropriate body...
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Inquiry recommendation
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FR-10 - Improve DBS Referral Compliance
The Inquiry recommends that the UK government takes steps to improve compliance by regulated activity providers with their statutory duty to refer concerns about the suitability of individuals to work with children to the Disclosure and Barring Service, including: all relevant regulators and inspectorates include compliance with the statutory duty to refer to the Disclosure and Barring Service...
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Inquiry recommendation
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R9 - GP certification of fitness for NHS employment
We recommend that consideration be given to how General Practitioners, might, with the candidate's consent be asked to certify that there is nothing in the medical history of a candidate for employment in the nhs which would make them unsuitable for their chosen occupation (see para 5.5.19).
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R6 - Sickness records available to occupational health
We recommend that the possibility be reviewed of making available to Occupational Health departments any records of absence through sickness from any institution which an applicant for a nursing post has attended or been employed by (para 5.5.14).
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R1 - Sickness-absence record for entrants to nursing
We recommend that for all those seeking entry to the nursing profession, in addition to routine references the most recent employer or place of study should be asked to provide at least a record of time taken off on grounds of sickness (para 2.4.4)
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Inquiry recommendation
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36 - Guidance on DBS for overseas work
The Home Office should ensure explanatory guidance is issued, providing clarity to recruiting organisations and individuals concerning the use of the Disclosure and Barring Service scheme for work and volunteering outside the UK.
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Inquiry recommendation
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R5 - Health screening for newly qualified nurses
We recommend that nurses should undergo formal health screening when they obtain their first posts after qualifying (para 5.5.13).
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Inquiry recommendation
40match
R4 - No nursing employment where major personality disorder
We recommend that no candidate for nursing in whom there is evidence of major personality disorder should be employed in this profession (para 5.4.11)
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Inquiry recommendation
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FR-8 - Registration in Young Offender Institutions
The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Sexual Abuse of Children in Custodial Institutions: 2009-2017 Investigation Report, dated February 2019) that the UK government introduces arrangements for the professional registration of staff in roles responsible for the care of children in young offender institutions and secure training centres.
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Inquiry recommendation
40match
FR-7 - Registration of Care Home Staff
The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Interim Report, dated April 2018) that the UK government introduces arrangements for the registration of staff working in care roles in children's homes, including secure children's homes. Registration should be with an independent body charged with setting and maintaining standards of training, conduct and continuing professional development, and with the...
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Inquiry recommendation
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27 - Professional registration for custodial care staff
As the Inquiry set out in its Interim Report, professional registration of the workforce in settings responsible for the care of vulnerable children complements regulation of institutions by a separate, independent regulator. The government has agreed in principle that professional regulation of staff in children's homes in England could provide an effective additional means of protecting children. It...
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Inquiry recommendation
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25 - Amendment of Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
The Chair and Panel recommend that the Home Office ensures that the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 is amended so that, where a fitness to practise hearing has been conducted by the keeper of a relevant register and has resulted in removal of a practitioner from that register for reasons relating to harm or risk of harm to...
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Inquiry recommendation
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24 - Registration of children's home care staff
The Chair and Panel recommend that the Department for Education introduces arrangements for the registration of staff working in care roles in children's homes. Registration should be with an independent body charged with setting and maintaining standards of training, conduct and continuing professional development, and with the power to enforce these through fitness to practise procedures. The Chair...
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Inquiry recommendation
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R29 - Incomplete applications returned to Registered Body
Incomplete or withdrawn applications should in future be returned to the Registered Body, and not to the applicant.
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