The role of recruitment and selection in safeguarding, the new 2015 children's homes regulations and the importance of getting it right...exactly right!
Effective and well planned recruitment and selection is an essential way of ensuring that the right people are employed in the right post role and are able to meet the job specification set out by an employer. This is an crucial part of making sure we keep children and young people safe and is, rightly so, a definite focus point for Ofsted, where services need to be able to evidence everything they have done during recruitment to check the status of new supporters. Ofsted will inspect regulation 32 (Fitness of Workers) and regulation 33 (Employment of Staff) of the Children's homes regulations 2015 and services need to be able to demonstrate process are in place for attaining and actioning references, providing induction, probation and completing supervisions. It is also equally important that people involved in the recruitment and selection process have knowledge of the wide range of employment legislation which determines the methods employers use to recruit staff members and rem...