Safer Recruitment Policy
Safer Recruitment Policy
These policies are part of Sport NZ's overall commitment to safeguarding children and will be supplemented with further guidance, templates, knowledge-sharing and training to support national, regional and community organisations.
Our policy and procedures have been developed in partnership with Safeguarding Children - Tiakina ngā tamariki as interactive pdfs for your organisation to download and complete, by adding your organisation’s details in the fields provided, then save to your own files.
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The purpose of this policy is to:
- Give our commitment to protect children and young people from harm, abuse and neglect by a staff member or volunteer of [insert name of organisation]
- Reduce the opportunity for a perpetrator of abuse to offend against the children and young people of [insert name of organisation]
- To guide the safer recruitment of staff and regular volunteers.
Included in this section:
- Policy 6: Safer Recruitment Policy
- Procedure 3: Procedures for safer recruitment of Employees and Volunteers
- Appendix 3: Safe recruitment checklist for staff, contractors and volunteers
- Appendix 4: Questions for interviewers and Referees
- Appendix 5: Volunteer screening form
This suite of policies includes:
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