Safer recruitment forms and guidance

• DBS Update Service – guidance
• Request to Advertise a School Based Vacancy
• Work Experience Reference Form
• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks – Policy and Guidance
• Application form – Teaching
• Application form – Support Staff

Safer recruitment forms and process

All schools maintained by Devon should now use the on-line Disclosure and Barring Service Checks to ensure compliance with the safer recruitment forms and process.

• Safer Recruitment Service

Single central record of DBS compliance for school and Ofsted compliance

To support the need for schools to have a single central record of DBS compliance, please download the following letters regarding visitors to schools. These letters can be shown to Ofsted Inspectors to confirm that Devon County Council staff and those in our linked organisations have had thorough and robust recruitment checks including a DBS check.

• Babcock letter of assurance
• DCC Ofsted letter
• PCT Ofsted letter – Devon
• PCT Ofsted letter – Torbay and South