Safer Working Practices For Those Working With Children And Young People In Education

Recent changes to non-statutory guidance produced by the Safer Recruitment Consortium

In May 2019 the Safer Recruitment Consortium (SRC) published an update to their guidance on safe working practices for those who work with children and young people in an education setting.

In line with the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE), all schools must have a staff code of conduct in place. The new revised non-statutory guidance is a useful starting point when considering guidelines for professional conduct towards children and young people. Although the guidance is non-statutory, it includes a foreword by Nadhim Zahawi MP, who was at that time Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families in the Department for Education. He welcomes the revised guidance and encourages those working in education to read it alongside KCSiE.

We outline below the key revisions to the SRC guidance.

Confidentiality

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