Trusted by Teachers and Schools
Ensuring the Highest Standards Through Robust Vetting
Here at Kent Teaching Solutions, we have extensive experience in carrying out thorough vetting procedures and understand that safeguarding is the cornerstone of quality education.
Above all, we know that placing the right, fully verified staff in schools makes all the difference to both pupils and teaching teams.
Our expertise and dedicated team ensure that every candidate we put forward has undergone rigorous checks, giving schools confidence in their suitability, experience, and professionalism.
KTS conducts comprehensive vetting for all candidates, including:
Child Protection
We prioritise safeguarding, ensuring every candidate is safe and trustworthy.
Our affiliations
As REC members, we follow the highest recruitment standards.
The checks we undertake
Comprehensive vetting including DBS, references, and qualifications.
Child Protection
Child protection is paramount, for us and our schools. We therefore carry out comprehensive checks to ensure proper safeguarding procedures are adhered to, whether you’re looking for supply teaching jobs, nursery teacher jobs or primary teacher jobs each candidate is checked.
Our affiliations
Our industry affiliations provide schools and candidates alike with confidence and reassurance. We adhere to recognised sector standards and align ourselves with professional bodies whose codes of ethics and practice ensure best‑in‑class service, while guaranteeing that every candidate we put forward is thoroughly vetted.
The checks we undertake
We carry out comprehensive checks on all our candidates, compliant to OFSTED regulations:
| Proof/Check | Acceptable Documents/Terms |
| Proof of ID / Right to work in the UK | Valid passport or driving license or a long birth certificate accompanied with a NI number |
| 2 x proof of address | Two of the following, dated within the last three months: a bank statement, credit card statement, utility bill, council tax statement or a driving license |
| DBS police check | All our candidates are required to be on the update service |
| Qualification certificates – teachers | Degree certificate, Qualified Teacher Status certificate, Induction Certificate, DFEE Teacher Number (if any of the certificates are missing) |
| Qualification Certificates – support staff | A Level/NVQ certificates |
| National Insurance Number | NI Card, recent payslip or a P60 certificate |
| Change of name | Marriage certificate or change of name certificate if any of the documents are in a different name |
| Proof of pay scale for Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) | Employment letter |
| 2 references | Most recent employers or equivalent |
| Up-To-Date CV |