Pre-employee Vetting and Screening Webinar
Employee Vetting and Screening
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 | FREE
When: Thursday, 13th February '25
With the need for tighter checks and security clearances, including contractors and temporary staff, as well as immigration and right to work checks becoming more complex, UK employers are under pressure to ensure accuracy and compliance when verifying staff.
The BPSS version 7.0 guidance outlines which tools to use for verifying identities, the new digital guidelines and data security. This intensive one-hour webinar draws on our three decades of delivering independent training to UK employers, and will examine:
- What are the changes and how they might impact your hiring and checking processes
- How to remain compliant with evolving and complex legislation
- How to streamline your background checking processes, policy and practice
- How to conduct international criminal checks to ensure your hires are not fraudulent or dangerous
We are accepting questions before and during the broadcast. Please send your questions to elizabeth.smith@bfi.co.uk.
Schedule
Introduction and welcome
Elizabeth Smith
Director of Research , Business Forums International Ltd. (BFI)
Elizabeth is director of research and a founding co-director at Business Forums International. She is responsible for all programme content and writing, and researches current areas of interest for senior HR professionals in large organisations. BFI is the UK’s leading HR risk specialist conference and training provider, delivering key and timely information to over 3,000 delegates a year both through public and in-house training courses. Before founding BFI in 1996, Elizabeth specialised in researching corporate financial programmes in Asia and the Middle East, based in Dubai. She also worked in advertising and publishing in the Middle East and London. Elizabeth was educated in the West Indies, Saudi Arabia and Belgium before reading Modern Languages at Durham University. She is currently developing an online training course for line managers to raise awareness of menopause symptoms and ways that employers can work to make their workplaces more inclusive.
A panel of HR practitioners discuss what are the current and future threats to UK organisations during the vetting process?
A robust examinations of:
- Why, how and whom should you be vetting?
- The legal requirements and framework
- Identity checks: what can you check, and when? Screening for education fraud, criminal records, financial records and employment gaps
- What to communicate to candidates: a legally watertight policy and where you might be vulnerable