Confirmation of Safeguarding checks on staff/workers

 

CONFIRMATION OF SAFEGUARDING CHECKS ON STAFF/WORKERS

• St Ignatius College ensures that all relevant pre-employment checks are carried out on employees and workers engaged directly. In particular, the following specific safeguarding checks are carried out
   
• All employees/workers appointed/engaged prior to March 2002 (and with no subsequent change to their employment arrangement requiring a further check) have been subject to a check against List 99; additionally, those appointed between 1989 and March 2002 would have been subject to a satisfactory police check
   
• All employees/workers appointed/engaged since March 2002 have been subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This check included a check against List 99                                                                                
• All employees/workers appointed/engaged since 12th October 2009 have been subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check, including a check against List 99/Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) Barred List
   
• All employees/workers appointed/engaged since 1st December 2012 have been subject to a satisfactory Enhanced with Barred List check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

Unsupervised, regular volunteers are also subject to the above safeguarding checks.

Supervised, regular volunteers are subject to the above safeguarding checks, with the current exception of the Children’s Barred List check.

All school staff and workers engaged directly are issued with photographic School ID.

As appropriate, visitors to the school are asked to provide Photographic ID wherever possible.

Third party organisations deploying staff or workers to the school are required to provide confirmation that pre-employment and safeguarding checks relevant to the role have been carried out.

If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to contact the school directly.