REC consent allows the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the largest professional body for the recruitment industry to potentially audit your file once every two years.
Step Teachers is a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the largest professional body for the recruitment industry. All REC Corporate members are required to comply with the REC Code of Professional Conduct and must successfully complete a compliance test soon after joining and then every 2 years in order to stay in REC membership.
REC audits
In addition to being a member of the REC, we also hold the additional REC Audited Education award, which demonstrates that we work to higher standards in the recruitment industry. In order to continue to maintain the REC Audited Education award, a REC auditor visits our offices every 2 years to check our processes and documentation to ensure we have complied with all legislation relevant to work-finding services.
A key part of this on-site audit is a random check on a number of our candidate files. These files will contain personal data such as your name, address, date of birth, national insurance number, right to work checks and qualifications. They may also include special categories of data such as health information or criminal records. Though it checks files to see that we have complied with our legal obligations and Code of Professional Practice, the REC do not take copies of any personal data during the audit..
By giving consent for REC to review your file, you are also permitted to work with any school that uses the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) to facilitate the placement of supply teachers and temporary staffing.
Our agency and the REC are both data controllers for the purposes of the data protection laws. This means that we must comply with the data protection principles at all times. To start with, we must have a legal basis to process personal data we collect about you. We must also have a legal basis to transfer this data to a third party or to allow a third party to have access to it - this includes the REC who we would show this data to only for audit purposes: we do not routinely share our candidate data with the REC. Consent is one legal basis we can allow the REC to see your file and therefore your personal data if you consent to this. Therefore, we ask you to sign below to show that you consent to the REC reviewing your file during an audit. If you do not consent, we will not allow the REC to see your file.
If you have previously not given your consent as part of your application form, you can give your consent using this form: http://stepteachers.co.uk/Teachers/eRECAuditedConsent