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Checks for school volunteers
The requirements for checks on volunteers differ depending on the circumstances. Use our flowchart to determine what safeguarding checks are required, and read about requirements and best practice on checks for volunteers who have lived or worked abroad and right to work checks.
Contents
- Flowchart to determine what safeguarding checks are required
- Volunteers who have lived or worked abroad
- Right to work in the UK
- References
- Medical checks
- Qualifications
- Agency staff: pre-employment checks
- Asking about sickness absence during recruitment
- Checking teachers' qualifications
- Checks for new school staff and governors
- Checks for staff who have lived or worked overseas
- Job offer letter: template
- Medical checks for new school staff
- Missing references for school staff
- Prohibition from teaching checks
- Unrestricted right to work in the UK
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