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Contents
- 1 Schools should seek references before appointing staff
- 2 Problems obtaining references for recently-employed staff
- 3 Should we obtain missing historic references?
- 4 Assessing risks for staff with missing references
- 5 Recording missing references
- 6 What will Ofsted say about missing references?
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