Designated Safeguarding Lead Resources

🔒 Aligned to KCSIE 2026 

Ensure your school's safer recruitment processes are rigorous and compliant with clear guidance and ready-to-use checklists that keep every pre-employment check and single central record entry complete and audit-ready.

You'll get:

☑️ Safer Recruitment Compliance Guidance (6 pages) – covers the SCR, pre-appointment checks, conditional offers and what to do if a check raises a concern

☑️ Safer Recruitment Checklist Template – a to-do list for the whole recruitment process, from advertising through to appointment

☑️ Pre-Employment Checklist – record-keeping for the specific checks to complete once you have a preferred candidate

☑️ SCR Record-Keeping Checklist – audit your SCR itself for completeness against KCSIE requirements

Please note this pack does not replace safer recruitment training, which one panel member on every interview should have. Instead, this pack supports those who are already safer recruitment trained and those responsible for school recruitment record-keeping to stay organised and ensure every check for new staff members has been completed. These three checklists are also included within our full School Recruitment and Employment Compliance Pack, for schools building their whole recruitment process from scratch.

Ideal for headteachers, SBMs, office managers, DSLs and safeguarding link governors who want their safer recruitment process, pre-employment checks and SCR entries to be watertight.