For education recruitment agencies
Safeguarding training for supply agencies
One annual, CPD Certified, 60-minute course that covers KCSiE safeguarding, child protection, the Prevent duty, allergy and anaphylaxis, for every supply teacher and teaching assistant on your books.
The honest version
What actually obliges you, and what does not
No law requires an agency to train the workers it supplies. Plenty of training is sold on the opposite claim, so it is worth being direct about it. Four things do bite, and a single dated certificate closes all four.
Legal duty, on you
Confirming training before you supply
Regulation 19 requires an employment business, before introducing or supplying a work-seeker, to obtain confirmation that the work-seeker has the experience, training and qualifications the hirer considers necessary. The duty is triggered by what the school asks for. Once a school treats safeguarding training as necessary for the booking, confirming it is your legal obligation, not a nice-to-have.
Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, reg 19
Legal duty, on you
Your DBS referral duty as a personnel supplier
Section 36 places a referral duty on personnel suppliers, a definition that expressly includes employment agencies and employment businesses. KCSiE 2026 points at it directly at paragraph 458. Most safeguarding courses are written for school staff and never mention it. Ours covers it, because it is your duty and not the school’s.
Membership standard, voluntary and audited
Training within the last 12 months
APSCo Compliance+ requirement 26A asks that all candidates have undertaken safeguarding training within the last 12 months before being placed in a school, evidenced by sight of the candidate’s certificate. 26B flags Prevent training at least every 12 months as best practice. This is the real reason an annual course exists, and it is a membership standard rather than a regulation.
APSCo Compliance+ standard for Education, v12, September 2024
Commercial expectation
The school asks before the booking
Schools increasingly make a current safeguarding certificate a condition of accepting a worker, alongside the written confirmation of checks they are legally required to obtain from you under KCSiE paragraph 364. No citation needed for this one. You already know.
What we will not claim
The commercial case
One price for the whole list
| Candidates | Supply Safe | Per candidate |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | £250 | £10.00 |
| 50 | £395 | £7.90 |
| 100 | £695 | £6.95 |
| 250 | £995 | £3.98 |
| 500 | £1,500 | £3.00 |
| 750 | £2,250 | £3.00 |
All figures exclude VAT and are annual.
What you get
Built for the person doing the compliance file
One renewal date
Every candidate certified to the same expiry, aligned to the KCSiE academic year. Not a hundred different anniversaries.
Certificates come to you
A copy of every certificate lands with your verified address automatically, as well as with the candidate.
Invite in bulk
Upload a CSV of your whole list. Errors are shown before anything is committed.
See who is outstanding
Not started, in progress, completed, expiring. Filter it, export it, hand it to an auditor.
One certificate covers both parts
Safeguarding, child protection, Prevent, allergy and anaphylaxis, on one PDF with one reference.
Updated every September
DfE republishes KCSiE annually. So do we, in the first week of September.
250 candidates, £995 a year, £3.98 each
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