Annual Certificate in the Single Central Record (2024-2025)

Lorna Ponambalum
Senior leader and safeguarding consultant

Course

1h 5m

Rated 5 stars

(371)

8 modules

Developed by Lorna Ponambalum, safeguarding and inclusion consultant, this training course on the Single Central Record (SCR) will provide you and your school staff with the knowledge and skills to ensure that you’re meeting your statutory requirements and legal obligations with respect to recording staff information.
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All schools and colleges must maintain a single central record of pre-appointment checks, referred to by law as “the register” and more commonly known as “the single central record (SCR)”. Schools must ensure a minimum amount of information is recorded for all members of staff, including if relevant checks have been completed and if roles involve ‘relevant activity’. 

Developed by Lorna Ponambalum, safeguarding and inclusion consultant, this online Single Central Record training course and certificate will provide you and your school staff with the knowledge and skills to ensure that you’re meeting your statutory requirements and legal obligations with respect to recording staff information.  For your convenience, we've recorded this course with a professional presenter.

Please note: This course provides AI-generated subtitles in multiple languages including English, Welsh, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian and Chinese. To select a language, start the video and click the Closed Captioning (CC) button.

When planning and allocating your time, please consider that this training course consists of learning through video, task completion and further reading/research. To successfully understand and achieve the objectives from the course, learners are expected to engage in all aspects of the learning process and complete all relevant activities to ensure they can successfully apply the knowledge and skills they have gained in their own setting.

Designed in line with the following policies:

Important note for non-UK learners: Although this online SCR training course for schools reflects best practice principles and might be useful for learners outside the UK, please note that it is based solely on UK guidance and legislation. Please make sure you also adhere to relevant legislation applicable in your own country.

Introduction

This course will guide you through everything you need to know about the administration and monitoring of the Single Central Record, also known as the SCR. This is a vital document in a school's safeguarding process and MUST be a priority for all schools and colleges. The course content has been developed by Lorna Ponambalum, an independent safeguarding and inclusion consultant.

Module 1: The important of the single central record

This module explores the purpose of the SCR, why schools need to have one, and why it is so important to create a safer working culture within the school.

Module 2: Statutory framework

This module will focus on the statutory framework relating to the SCR. This includes looking at statutory guidance and other policies that link to the single central record.

Module 3: Administration of the SCR

This module explores the administration side of the single central record. This module explores what information needs to be included and what checks need to be completed.

Module 4: Roles and responsibilities

This module explores the roles and responsibilities that relate to monitoring the single central record. It considers who needs to be involved in keeping it up to date.

Module 5: Common mistakes

This module reviews some of the common mistakes that are associated with administering the SCR.

Module 6: Best practice

This module explores the best practice in relation to maintaining the SCR.

Module 7: Case studies

This module will look at some case studies to help reflect on how you can improve the SCR in your setting.

Outcome 1:

Understanding the statutory framework in relation to both the format and content of the single central record

Outcome 2:

Identifying the categories of staff and employees that should be recorded on the single central record

Outcome 3:

Developing a practical understanding of key pre-employment checks for governors/trustees, school-based staff, volunteers, contractors, and agency workers

Outcome 4:

Recognising how to implement a clear tracking and monitoring process of the single central record, so it remains inspection compliant

Outcome 5:

Identifying examples of best practice with respect to the maintenance of the single central record

Lorna Ponambalum

Lorna Ponambalum is a strategic senior leadership education professional with over 23 years of teaching experience in inner London schools. She has served on the governing board and Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and is highly experienced as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), leading her schools to outstanding inspections for safeguarding and being recognised herself as an outstanding teacher by Ofsted.

Lorna has worked as a Mental Health Lead and the Designated LAC (Looked After Children) Teacher. She has a wealth of strategic and operational knowledge in specialist areas. She has led on and is a champion for inclusion, safeguarding, anti-bullying, attendance, behaviour, and mental health as well as being a trained mental health first aider.

Lorna has been on the SLT of two recent Ofsted inspections where the schools have been judged as ‘good with outstanding features’. She has managed large local authority (LA) safeguarding initiatives, represented on working groups, worked on self-evaluation forms (SEF) and school improvement plans (SIP) and is familiar with single central registers (SCR).

She has developed and delivered INSET and continuous professional development (CPD) training to multi-agency education professionals including teachers, pastoral and therapeutic staff as well as senior leaders. She has also managed teams and supported staff to develop and implement policy and safeguarding systems to meet quality assurance compliance cycles and standards to ensure children and young people are kept safe.

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The course help me get myself familiarize with the SCR administration.
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Excellent, informative & clear
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A useful refresher and I picked up a couple of things to tweak on our SCR
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Informative course
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Very informative
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