For each sector, The Better Hiring Institute advisory board appoint a sub-committee of up to ten organisations. The purpose of each sub-committee is to meet with others in your sector for an hour every 6-8 weeks with the aim to discuss how you could potentially standardise for your industry, challenges and issues that you face, and any key themes. This is with a view to harmonise and modernise hiring in the UK labour market. 

If you would like to become a sub-committee member and collaborate with industry and UK GOV specifically on matters that relate to your industry, get in touch.

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Who regulates the industry?

The Department for Education is responsible for children's services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and more comprehensive skills in England.

The Teaching regulation agency responsibility is to regulate the teaching profession, including misconduct hearing and maintenance of the qualified teacher’s database.

  • Provide employers access to the database of qualified teachers (DQT) for pre-employment checks. This ensures the employers identify teachers who are disqualified.
  • They act on behalf of the secretary of state as a competent authority in England.

The regulatory system for teachers' misconduct is defined under The Teachers’ Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012 and the Teacher Misconduct: Disciplinary procedures for the teaching profession.

Screening requirements for the industry

Ensure you comply with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Any condition employment offers made must comply and be satisfied with the pre-employment checks.

Examples of roles and associated checks

Teacher

  • Identity check
  • Right to work
  • Enhanced police checks with barred list check
  • Overseas criminal record check
  • Academic and professional qualifications
  • Teacher status checks
  • A prohibition from management check – Section 128 Barring Direction.
  • Health check

Teaching Assistant

  • Identity check
  • Right to work check
  • Enhanced police check with barred list check
  • Fully completed application form
  • References
  • Health check
  • Overseas criminal record check

Volunteers

There are two forms of volunteers, those who are in regulated activity and those that are not

In regulated activity:

  • Identity documents
  • Enhanced DBS check with barred list check.
  • Details recorded on Schools Central record.

Volunteers should still complete an application form.

Not in regulated activity:

  • Identity documents
  • Enhanced DBS check without barred list check*(Optional)
  • Details recorded on Schools Central record.

Governers

Governors are volunteers, so depending on whether they engage in regulated activity or not, the following applies.

For those in regulated activity:

  • Identity documents
  • Enhanced DBS check with barred list check.
  • Details recorded on Schools Central record.

Volunteers should still complete an application form.

Not in regulated activity:

  • Identity documents
  • Enhanced DBS check without barred list check.
  • Details recorded on Schools Central record.

Caretakers

  • Application form completed
  • Right to work check
  • References
  • Health check
  • Identity checks
  • Enhanced DBS check with barred list check.
  • Overseas criminal record check

Office Staff

  • Enhanced DBS check without barred list check(Optional)
  • Application form completed
  • References
  • Health check
  • Identity check
  • Right to work check

Cleaners

  • References
  • Health check
  • Identity checks
  • Enhanced DBS check without a barred list check.

Case for change

The absence of an overriding organisation setting standards for hiring across the UK means that there is no singular driving force for change to modernise the labour market by eliminating waste, inefficiency, and poor productivity across all sectors and industries. We want to streamline and modernise hiring and promote safe recruitment across all sectors, including tackling various recruitment fraud, which has increased during COVID.

What happens if you don't get it right?

Join the subcommittee for your industry.
Get involved.
If you are interested, just let us know! Appoint a representative for your organisation and we will get in touch and facilitate arrangements. Simple as that.
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