Requires a police check & a vulnerable sector check
Whether you are a member of senior management at a school, retirement residence, long-term care facility, faith community or non-profit organization, you and your counterparts face a common risk. That’s because your employees, professional staff members and volunteers work with, or have potentially unsupervised contact with, vulnerable persons — children, elderly people, and physically or mentally challenged individuals. A key and critical concern is that a vulnerable person in your facility may become the victim of some form of abuse — for example, physical, sexual, verbal or financial. The ramifications of such an incident are both tragic and far reaching for children, elderly people, refugees and physically or mentally challenged individuals.
A highly rigorous hiring practice
There are a number of steps you must take to help manage this risk. First and foremost, your organization must institute a highly rigorous hiring practice to screen the suitability of all applicants — whether they are looking for employment or…
