Our Compliance Commitment

Our Compliance Commitment

Before Class People can put teachers, teaching assistants and early years practitioners out to work, the following processes and procedures must be carried out:

Pre-Vet: This is our chance to get to know the candidate and asses whether or not we can help them find their ideal role going forward. 

Registration Interview: Once we have the necessary information to start the registration process, we will invite the teacher, TA or practitioner for a face-to-face meeting with one of our recruitment consultants. We meet all of our candidates and would never put someone out to work until this meeting is carried out. This is when we ask a few more in-depth questions to get to know their teaching background, obtain, check and take a copy of the candidate's original documents, and get any contractual paperwork signed. 

Pre-Employment Checks: Before we can 'enable' candidates to go out to work, our Compliance Officer will ensure all of the below checks are carried out with a satisfactory result and recorded on the candidates file;

• Disqualification by association self-declaration.
• An identity check including proof of name changes and proof of current address
• Right to work in the UK
• Referencing
• Barred list check
• Enhanced DBS check (full policy below)
• Prohibition from teaching NCTL check (alongside Section 128 and EEA Regulatory Authority checks if required), ensuring check is clear and copy saved
• Qualification check; originals seen of qualifications and copies saved
• Overseas police clearance (if applicable)
• All candidates have read Keeping Children Safe in Education part one
• Medical declaration
• Rehabilitation of the Offenders Act

Types of Workers: Class People register the following types of workers:

• Primary Teachers
• Secondary Teachers
• Qualified Early Years Practitioners
• Unqualified Early Years Practitioners
• General Teaching Assistants
• SEN Teaching Assistants
• SEN Teachers
• Tutors
• Education Instructors

Referencing: For teaching staff, we require a minimum of 11 months of teaching employment references within the last seven years. One reference must be from the candidate's most recent post. For all other staff working with children, employment references must cover at least 3 months of relevant experience (working with children) within the last 6 years. 

DBS Checks: All candidates have an enhanced DBS check with children's barred list check. Class People require a DBS on the update service which makes it portable between employers. Without a DBS with the update service, we are unable to put candidates out to work so we request this to be completed before the registration process.

Medical Declaration: In line with the Education (Health Standards) Regulations 2003, we are required to check that staff who will be working directly with children have the health, physical and mental capacity to do so. Candidates will be expected to declare any existing medical conditions before going out to work for us.

Overseas Candidates: For any candidate who has lived abroad for more than six months in the last five years, Class People require an overseas police clearance certificate or letter of good conduct from the appropriate country or countries before booking them into work. To work as a qualified teacher with Class People, teachers who qualified in the EEA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America may apply for QTS without further training or assessment in England.

Disqualification: Current legislation states that individuals are disqualified from working with children or yound people, when they ‘live or work in the same household’ as someone who is barred from working with children or young people, even if they would not otherwise be disqualified themselves. We require all candidates to complete a self-declaration to confirm that, to the best of their knowledge, they are not disqualified by association. We ask any candidate working with children under 8 years old to sign a self-declaration form.

Continued Suitability: We will complete a NCTL/Prohibitation Check and DBS Update Check every 12 months. If any candidate has 3 months since their last day of work through us or since we last completed a DBS update check, to ensure their continued suitability we will either gain an employment reference from working with children to cover the last 3 months or complete an update check on their DBS if they have the update service.

Termination and Misconduct: Class People operate a 'three strike policy'. If we receive negative feedback about the individual's performance/behaviour on three occassions or more, we reserve the right to no longer offer work to the candidate.