Volunteer Information
Thank you for considering being a volunteer at SPS, click on the link below to access the Volunteer Handbook.
Child Protection Procedures
Please click here to view the Department for Education's 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' document that is issued to all schools.
If you have any concerns at all, please report them immediately to a designated safeguarding lead via the school office.
Details can also be found under the Safeguarding menu on the left.
DBS Information
If you are helping in school on a regular basis you will need to have a DBS check - this can be carried out by the school office and will simply require your e-mail address to begin the procedure and a short amount of your time at home to complete your history online.
For a DBS check :-
Valid Passport
Driving Licence (full or provisional – photocards must be accompanied by paper copy)
Birth Certificate
Marriage Certificate
Utility Bills/Bank Statements (less than 3 months old)
National Insurance No (in print please!)
Please bring as many of the above as possible – the computerised process will not allow you to continue until it is satisfied with the ID supplied . . . and this can vary from application to application!
As long as you do not have a break in volunteering of more than 12 weeks, your Disclosure Certificate will not expire. Only the old format of CRB had an expiry date (these took the form of letter confirmation and not Disclosure Certificates).
No! SPS will meet the administration cost for all its volunteer helpers
You can only use a DBS that has been issued by SPS. Even though other checks may have been undertaken through Kent nurseries/Ofsted/Scout Assoc etc – your Disclosure Certificate is only portable if you have registered with the DBS Update Service.
Frustrating we know, but this is the current guideline from the DBS Office!
