We welcome parent volunteers at King's, whether helping in the lunch hall, reading with children, or helping supervise educational visits. To safeguard everyone, though, we do require all volunteers to follow our induction procedure.

Induction procedures

Set out below is the school induction programme for parent helpers, student teachers, pre PGCE students, MFL students and work experience students only.  If you do not fall into any of these categories you do not need to complete the instructions on this page.  Club leaders, peripatetic teachers and other external adults working on a paid basis should click here for the applicable induction programme.

All volunteers must have an Enhanced DBS check for the 'Child Workforce' before taking part in school activities with children.  The application is done online - please contact the school office for the link. There is an online identity check service available that references the biometric data in UK passports, or alternatively you can present three original items of identity verification in person in school.  The official list of identification documents is here.  We also ask that you pay, via Arbor, the £12.50 fee that we are charged by our DBS agent for volunteer applications (£9.50 if electronic ID is not used).  When the check is complete the paper certificate will be posted to your home address, and we ask that you bring that in to the office for verification.

If you already subscribe to the DBS Update Service we can use that - please ask at the office for details.

Induction materials

Please click here to access the induction procedures common to all adults working with our pupils.

When you have completed these procedures please click the appropriate link to return to this page.

Completing the Process

Thank you for completing our induction programme.  Please now download the document Induction Volunteers (see below) and complete the following sections

RESPONSIBILITES/EXPECTATIONS

SAFEGUARDING – POLICIES

HEALTH AND SAFETY

Once this is done please sign and date to show that you have completed the induction programme and hand into the School Office for the attention of the Assistant Head (Ms Sesay) or the Deputy Head (Ms Demir).  We will then invite you to come in to school for a short tour and familiarisation.