AISL Academy
Safer recruitment for international schools
Explore safer recruitment practices that help international schools strengthen safeguarding and create safer environments for students.
About This Webinar
This course examines safer recruitment in international schools, covering recruitment processes, vetting procedures, safeguarding checks, the Single Central Record (SCR), and risk management. You will learn how school leaders, HR teams, and safeguarding staff can work together to create a strong safeguarding culture and protect children through effective recruitment practices.
About the Speakers
Mick Smith
Director of Accreditation, COBIS. Mick has over 25 years of teaching and leadership experience, working in wonderful schools in Tanzania and Thailand, where he loved teaching Modern World History across the 11-18 age range. Mick has broad school leadership experience, including as Secondary School Principal at Bangkok Patana School from 2007-2020. He brings in-depth understanding of education in the international school context, including as a parent to his two internationally educated daughters.
Mick has an MA in Educational Leadership and Management from the Institute of Education at UCL, where his dissertation focused on democratic leadership.
Louise Bell
Safeguarding Officer, COBIS. Louise is the Safeguarding Officer at COBIS. Her experience in education has involved serving as a School Governor for a primary school as a Safeguarding Link Governor for 6 years. She served on the Teaching and Learning Committee and Safeguarding Committee. She was also Chair of the Advisory Board of a Children’s Centre in the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames. Before that, Louise had a management role in Customer Relations at British Airways.