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Under the Education (Independent School Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007, schools are now required to carry out additional checks on members of staff. Details of the additional checks required can be found on the Independent Schools Inspectorate website using the following link ISI Checks ( http://www.isinspect.org.uk/highlights/ISI Regulatory Guidance April 2007.pdf). This was updated in September 2007 and details can be found at http://www.isinspect.org.uk/highlights/School_TI_ highlights_0907). SchoolBase® can now hold details of the additional staff checks and produce a report of the checks carried out for members of staff in the format required by the Independent Schools Inspectorate. In the Staff Checks form you can record any number of different staff attributes.Under the regulations, a check on the staff member's right to work in the UK is mandatory whereas the checking of references, CV and medical fitness are currently optional. Any entry can be cleared by clicking the  button.
Insert Standard Checks
Click this and you will see the list of those checks that we believe are those that all school must do.If some of these checks are already on a member of staff it will fill the gaps. This process will NOT duplicate checks. You can add the same check twice but to do this you would simply click the 'Add New Check' and select the check you wish to duplicate. Adding checks
Schools can add as many check types as they wish. We suggest that where you have a school policy to recheck CRBs every three years as some schools now do, you create a new check type. Then to add these to a member of staff you simple click the 'Add New Check' button.
Employment and pension information can be recorded on the Pension/DfES No tab. The list of pension types can be edited in a lookup form. Additional miscellaneous information can be recorded on the final tab. Like similar items for pupils the selection list can be tailored to meet your needs. The lookup form is called StaffInfo. On this tab also are the tick boxes which appear on the main staff record but this is the only place they can be edited.
On the Staff form we have added two fields. The first will hold the mnemonic of the person who checked the record and the second the date checked. Both fields are disabled thus no user can just change them. The only way to change is by clicking the ‘Mark as checked now’ button.
If someone is checking a record other than their own they see the first warning followed by the second. When checking their own, they only see the second message.
 
You have a choice of 5 types of register. The button on the form opens the first listed here but by using the Report Manager you can change this to whichever style the school wants to use.
The Default is the old style but we have developed a new style to reflect any new checks you add to the system. It uses a lot more paper but we feel it covers all the angles. The new report is as shown below and we would suggest that this may become the standard. 
The header part is basic information and then you have three lines for each and every check the you decide to use. There is a key to indicate what each of the 12 data areas are about. Every piece of check data that you have added will be on this form. 
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Last Updated on Friday, 27 January 2012 14:47 |
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