Safeguarding in your Setting SCR Training for Early Years

Safeguarding in your Setting

SCR Training for

Early Years GSEP 2021

Aims

• Single Central Record – why?

• Safer Recruitment and the SCR – whose responsibility?

• What should be recorded on the SCR?

• Retention of relevant documentation

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• At a glance record of all checks that should have been completed on each member of staff.

• Kept together so that a quick check can be made of all staff and regular visitors

• Details of each check should be on each person’s file.

• DfE requirement (Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage) and needed for your Ofsted Inspection

Single Central Record (SCR)

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Date of check: Name and role of person(s)

undertaking the check:

Outcomes including identified actions: Date actions completed and by whom:

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Suggested questions to ask yourself

• How and where do we store the SCR? Is it

secure?

• How frequently do I check the SCR?

• When's the last time you checked the

SCR?

• When’s the last time the SCR was checked

by GSEP?

• Have you checked the information recorded

on the SCR for errors?

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Suggested questions continued….

• Are all new staff recorded?

• Are current volunteers recorded?

• Are all relevant fields on the register

completed for each listed person?

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Single Central Record Check – QUALS

• DO THEY NEED A QUALIFICATION TO DO THE JOB THEY ARE DOING? • EVIDENCE • W • W • W

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Single Central Record Check – DBS

Barred List Check

Clear DBS

• EVIDENCE

• W

• W

• W

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Single Central Record Check – Annual

Declaration

Annual form.

• EVIDENCE

• W

• W

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Single Central Record Check – Right to Work

Does anyone need the right to work in the UK?

• EVIDENCE

• W

• W

• W

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Right to Work

https://www.gov.uk/transition GSEP 2021

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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

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