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Childcare security
Issues. Job seekers and job providers alike should read this. |
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Introduction
The safety advice below is based on common sense plus our knowledge accumulated over several years of placing nannies with families.
It is sensible to maintain vigilance in all dealings through the Internet and we have compiled the advice below to assist you in this.
We have also registered our website with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre’s Digital Asset Library to help us to maximise security to advertisers.
At interview
Make sure that you leave full details of the time, place, telephone number, email address, etc of the interview with a member of your own family.
We recommend that you speak to more than one member of the family, nursery school, etc by telephone before agreeing to an interview.
Always make a call to the family, nursery school, etc yourself by telephone at least once.
You should always take someone such as a friend along with you to the interview for support, and make sure that the interviewer is aware that the other person is
waiting outside for you. Establish in advance how long the interview is likely to take. This advice also applies to babysitting work.
Make sure that you have a guided tour of the home or nursery school.
In the case of nursery school work, ask to meet other employees before agreeing to start work with them.
Do not accept a job in childcare, including babysitting, if it is offered to you without a face to face interview in advance.
Do not accept a job in childcare if it is offered to you without a face to face interview in advance.
This includes babysitting jobs as well as, say, full-time nanny positions.
Always ask to meet the children who will be in your care in advance of accepting a job, even if it means attending a 2nd time.
Be suspicious if you are offered unsolicited and excessive payment by cheque in advance of starting work as you may find yourself involved in a money laundering scam.
What is Money Laundering?
Money Laundering and other scams!
If anyone has reason to believe that a job being offered is not genuine, please call us on: 01202 887355. We will investigate, remove and blacklist
the advertiser if appropriate.
Be suspicious if you are offered a wage significantly in excess of the going rate.
Expect to be asked for a current CRB certificate. If one is not requested this again may indicate there is something amiss, as all caring parents
will want to see one.
Advert security
We recommend that you use an email address in your advert for contact purposes rather than a telephone number as that way you remain in control.
i.e. you can choose whether to respond to an enquirer or not. Also you can be better prepared as you won't be caught on the hop.
Noone can obtain your email address held by GlobalAppointments.com unless they yield their own email address to us,
and you then choose to make contact with them by email. i.e. only you can reveal your email address to an enquirer.
To further increase security, as from 7th February 2010 childcare advert telephone or mobile/fax numbers will not be visible to the public, and
can only be obtained by email request to Globalappointments. Any such request is handled automatically and immediately. Adverts submitted before this date
will continue to show any telephone and mobile/fax numbers.
As a family you may choose to provide a postcode in your advert in which case we recommend that you give only the first part, called the district or outward code.
A full postcode can be used to narrow down your address using, say Multimap, to a small number of houses showing unsavoury individuals where there are children.
If you provide your full postcode we will only use the outward code to display the whereabouts of your house.
If the enquirer has an advert themselves on Globalappointments.com this should be revealed in the initial email to you.
Check it out before contacting them.
To help you decide whether to contact the enquirer a personal message from the enquirer may now be included in the email sent to you.
Can GlobalAppointments.com be trusted?
Globalappointments monitors its childcare adverts, both manually, and by computer on a continual day-by-day basis. One of the big advantages to families in using
our on-line service is that they will not be relying upon others to carry out checks on candidates,
rather they will be relying on their own good judgement. We cannot guarantee the credentials of advertisers, but we are confident that if sensible
precautions such as those outlined above are taken users should not get into any difficulty. It is worth pointing out that similar precautions
should be taken if you are applying for work, or looking to engage someone, whether you are using the Internet or not. Agencies regularly reject
candidates and you can do likewise. We run random checks on the advertisers of childcare positions, both individuals and organisations, which lack
clear credentials and will remove, blacklist and report to the Police anyone we suspect of using our web site for illicit purposes.
Temporary work
In the case of babysitting make sure you leave details of each job, time, place, etc, with a family member.
Parenting advice
Video by parenting.about.com
CEOP (Child Exploitation and On-line Protection)
The CEOP centre is part of UK law enforcement. The team is dedicated to protecting children from sexual abuse, tracking and bringing offenders to account.
CEOP’s work includes fighting internet child pornography, child trafficking, as well as setting up educational programmes such as ‘Thinkuknow’. Their motto is ‘Making every child matter………everywhere.'
Child Exploitation and Online Protection
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