Sentry – for Safer Recruitment

Sentry is a safeguarding software tool that effectively manages your safer recruitment process and acts as your Single Central Record. It enables practitioners to easily record all recruitment checks that are required by the statutory guidance and to closely track every step of that process. The system has been designed to guide you through the recruitment process, to monitor the progress of outstanding checks and to ensure compliance with the relevant legislation.

Sentry will ensure that your recruitment processes are robust and acts as a critical first line of defence against those individuals who may present significant risks to children and young people.

Features of Sentry

Sentry guides your organisation through its Safer Recruitment process and enables peace of mind that your practices are compliant.

• Automated workflows throughout the system to ensure no critical steps are missed
• Provides users with up-to-date guidance and advice on relevant guidance and best practice
• Quick reference dashboards to easily monitor status and outstanding SCR recruitment checks.
• Create customisable personnel roles and define any checks or evidence required for these roles on a case-by-case basis.
• Create your own customised checks that your establishment require for both standard and customised personnel roles.
• Specify when a check can expire and be notified when they are due to expire within the next 30, 60 or 90 days.
• Specify a date by which a check must be either completed/actioned. View any in-progress checks approaching their deadline date.
• Upload files against reference checks, allow additional note fields and additional reference details against an individual’s records.
• Document Vault, A centralised view of all documents that have been collated against checks for an individual.
• Archive individuals who have no linked checks or active checks. Archived records can be omitted from the default views.

Benefits of using Sentry for Safer Recruitment

• Step by step guided workflows through the safer recruitment process and the monitoring of recruitment checks for all staff
• Minimises risk and facilitates joined up safeguarding, whilst fully complying with Government guidance and legislation (including KCSIE 2020 and Keeping Learners Safe In Education)
• Saves significant time and makes the safer recruitment process more robust