Why has Safer Recruitment become a Childrens Workforce Development Council (CWDC) programme?
In 2005, the National College was asked by the then Department for Education and Skills (now the Department for Children, Schools and Families, DCSF) to develop Safer Recruitment online training for headteachers and chairs of governors. This training was one of the key recommendations of the Bichard Inquiry and was created to improve the safety of children in our schools. The College took on this activity utilising the relationships it had established with school leaders in English schools to successfully deliver the online training to over 18,000 members and to train over 1,000 trainers in local authorities to deliver a face-to-face equivalent of the training locally. However, the face of schools is changing, something which the College has championed, and other support staff in schools and local authorities are now undertaking the majority of recruitment within schools to enable headteachers in particular to concentrate on leading learning. For this reason, CWDC was asked by the DCSF
