Single Central Record (SCR) Compliance Bundle

This Single Central Record (SCR) Compliance Bundle is ideal for DSLs, headteachers and school leaders who want to check their safer recruitment and record-keeping processes against the criteria outlined in Part 3 of Keeping Children Safe in Education. 

Fully in line with KCSIE 2024 and the Ofsted School Inspection Handbook (September 2024), this bundle will help school leaders and safeguarding lead governors to:

• Conduct checks on whether their Single Central Record contains information about the correct people, including staff members, trainee teachers, agency and third-party workers, volunteers and contractors
• Identify whether the correct checks have been conducted depending on the person's role in school, including enhanced DBS checks, children's barred list checks, Section 128 checks, right to work in the UK checks and other statutory and recommended checks
• Verify whether dates are recorded for all of the above checks
• Triangulate and confirm your SCR evidence by conducting a spot check into a staff member's personnel file

The bundle contains two templates to support you in doing this. The Single Central Record (SCR) Overview Checklist lets you look at your SCR as a whole to identify gaps in dates and checks while the Single Central Record (SCR) Spot Check give you the structure needed to identify any discrepancies and missing information when comparing your SCR to personnel information held on file.

Both templates are fully editable Word documents so you can add, edit or remove details as necessary. They can also be re-used across the year to ensure you're fully compliant with recording how you use safer recruitment best practice to keep pupils safe in your setting. 

Looking for more support? We've got both safeguarding and Ofsted-focused resources for school leaders.