Safe and Secure Recruitment

Do you really know who you’re employing?

Confirming the identity and background history of personnel is one of the many challenges facing both employers and recruitment agencies when sourcing, selecting and supplying both temporary and permanent employees.

The challenge

There have been several high profile cases of inadequacies in recruitment vetting processes that have come to light, often as a result of tragic events.

Although you may endeavour to screen the candidates put forward, there are unique challenges that make achieving this objective difficult, particularly for those involved in the supply of temporary workers. For example:

* Is the person who arrives for work in fact the same person who has been through the screening and selection process?
* Do line managers have the experience or expertise to assess the suitability of temporary workers with convictions?
* Are recruitment consultants or your HR staff fully trained on the vetting process required?
* Are employment agency staff objective when considering the appropriateness of an individual?

The solution – S2S Safe & Secure Recruitment Services

All organisations that use S2S for their staffing requirements benefit from access to our pre-employment screening service. The team who manage the service are dedicated to monitoring and enforcing the contractual and legislative compliance as well as promoting best practice where possible.

To help address these challenges, S2S have used their expertise to develop S2S Safe and Secure Recruitment, an independent service designed to help establish the suitability of candidates for specific roles, particularly those that involve working with children and vulnerable adults.

The S2S Safeguarding team ensure that each and every candidate put forward for a role has been through an additional independent vetting process.

These comprehensive processes allows the employing/user organisation to make an informed selection decision based on the intelligence obtained, secure in the knowledge that they have taken every step available to mitigate any risk.

What we can verify:

* Employment History 5/10 years
* Regulated References
* Academic/Professional Qualifications
* Gap Verifications/Character References
* Identity Checks/Address Verifications
* Directorships/Directors' Due Diligence
* Credit History
* Criminal History
* International Verifications

Criminal Record Bureau / Protection of Vulnerable Adults and Children

We can undertake both an enhanced and standard criminal record bureau check (CRB) using CAPITA. Checks against the Protection of Vulnerable Adults List (PoVA) and Protection of Children List (PoCA) can also be made if required. NOTE: The ISA is currently under review by HM Government and once the revised regulations are in place S2S will also be undertaking Independent Safeguarding (ISA) checks where required.

A Standard CRB check is recommended to protect against workplace violence and employee theft. There are certain laws that guide the circumstances where such a report can be obtained and S2S will inform the client if we are able to perform the search. A CRB report takes a minimum of 7 days but can take as long as three weeks.

Training is also available to organisations to include safer recruitment practices and processes; ID verification; fraud awareness; risk assessment and CRB/ISA form completion.

Photographic Evidence

Ensuring that all users scan and upload a copy of the candidate’s official photographic evidence. These documents are then matched by the S2S Safeguarding Team to the candidates CRB certificates to confirm authenticity.

References

Independently verifying that suppliers take up comprehensive references for the last 5/10 years with any gaps in employment explained.

Additional Verification

Verifying that candidates submitted are GSCC, GTC or BAOT registered where applicable. CV checking and validation is also available.

Eligibility to Work in the UK

Undertaking an additional independent check to verify that all candidates are eligible to work in the UK, in accordance with Home Office guidelines, physically checking scanned copy of documents.

Overseas Police Checks

Ensuring that Overseas Police Checks are obtained for candidates who have resided or worked overseas since age 16 and that any translations are certified, and any relevant documentation independently verified.

Interviews

Arranging where applicable for candidates to be interviewed by the client prior to formally taking up their temporary position.

Visibility

Providing employing organisations/users with details on any noncompliance measured against the above and providing “visual” confirmation of the identity of successful candidates prior to them commencing the assignment.

Download the S2S Safe & Secure Document for more information