Compliance+ Education

Compliance+ Education is the best practice quality standard for recruitment businesses and compels members to go beyond statutory safeguarding standards and aim for excellence in competency, selection and service quality. This was developed alongside Compliance+ Social Work and more recently Compliance+ Clinical & Healthcare to provide an uncompromising quality benchmark for Education, Social Work and Clinical & Healthcare recruitment companies.

What will it mean for my business?

It certifies safeguarding which goes beyond statutory requirements and is recognised as a certificated standard by the CCS.
It is designed to help safeguard and improve outcomes for children and vulnerable adults.
Your business will undergo an annual independent on-site audit process undertaken by a professional body to confirm consistency with safeguarding.

The APSCo Compliance+ Standards Committee ensures that Compliance+ remains relevant and appropriate and provides governance of the audit process.

How to become Compliance+ accredited

The Compliance+ accreditation process is administered by APSCo. However, audits are undertaken by independent experienced teaching professionals, or by independent professional auditors that specialise in auditing situations where the safeguarding of vulnerable people is involved.

There are seven steps to becoming accredited to Compliance:

Complete the APSCo membership application process
Provide APSCo with certain information about your company
Review APSCo Compliance+ terms of business here
Understand the requirements of Compliance+
Ensure internal processes are in line with the best practice requirements
Request an audit
Pass the audit on an annual basis showing continuous improvement

For more information on Compliance+, please call us on +44 (0) 203 117 0910 or email [email protected].

Compliance+ Standards Committee

The APSCo Standards Committee ensures that the Compliance+ standard remains relevant, appropriate and provides governance of the audit process for the standard.

The committee plays a critical role in making sure that the Compliance+ strategy and business plans are focused on the needs of members and support compliance of the recruitment profession.

Permanent members of the committee include APSCo, our Independent Auditors and Keith Rosser as Chair.

View our Committee Terms of Reference here.

2022/23 Education Compliance+ Committee Members

Keith Rosser (Chair), Director of Group Risk & Reed Screening, Reed Screening
Gavin Beart, Senior Divisional Director, Reed Education
Amy Gudgeon, Associate Director, 3D Recruit
Gemma Hector, Director, Apple a Day Supply
Polly Hogan, Managing Director, Clearly Education
Katy Rees, Managing Director, Smile Education
Fran Sandiford, Director, Smart Education

Compliance+ Audit Overview

Compliance+ audits will be undertaken by independent auditors. An in-depth remote audit will take place two years in a row, on the third year, the audit will be face-to-face, taking place at the recruitment business's place of work.

Further details on the remote audit process can be found here.

Code of Conduct

As an APSCo member working in the Education sector, you are committed to a strict Code of Conduct where high levels of professional behavior and protection are required.

Information on these checks can be found here: