Education

For each sector, The Better Hiring Institute advisory board appoint a sub-committee of up to ten organisations. The purpose of each sub-committee is to meet with others in your sector for an hour every 6-8 weeks with the aim to discuss how you could potentially standardise for your industry, challenges and issues that you face, and any key themes. This is with a view to harmonise and modernise hiring in the UK labour market. 

If you would like to become a sub-committee member and collaborate with industry and UK GOV specifically on matters that relate to your industry, get in touch.

The Department for Education is responsible for children's services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and more comprehensive skills in England.

The Teaching regulation agency responsibility is to regulate the teaching profession, including misconduct hearing and maintenance of the qualified teacher’s database.

• Provide employers access to the database of qualified teachers (DQT) for pre-employment checks. This ensures the employers identify teachers who are disqualified.
• They act on behalf of the secretary of state as a competent authority in England.

The regulatory system for teachers' misconduct is defined under The Teachers’ Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012 and the Teacher Misconduct: Disciplinary procedures for the teaching profession.

Ensure you comply with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Any condition employment offers made must comply and be satisfied with the pre-employment checks.

• Children Barred list Flow chart to determine whether the individual is in regulated activity
• Overseas criminal record checks apply to those in need of a police check and have spent over three months abroad (in one country) within the last 5 years, and they were over the age of 16. Guidance on the application process for criminal records checks overseas
• Teacher status checks can be carried out on DfE Access service
• A prohibition from management check – Section 128 Barring Direction. The check can be carried out using the NCTL's TeacherService.
• Academic and professional qualifications - verify the potential employee has achieved the qualification required.  DfE Sign-in (education.gov.uk)

The absence of an overriding organisation setting standards for hiring across the UK means that there is no singular driving force for change to modernise the labour market by eliminating waste, inefficiency, and poor productivity across all sectors and industries. We want to streamline and modernise hiring and promote safe recruitment across all sectors, including tackling various recruitment fraud, which has increased during COVID.