RECRUITMENT, INITIAL TRAINING AND CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONNEL AND PROTECTION OF MINORS

RECRUITMENT, INITIAL TRAINING AND CONTINUOUS

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONNEL AND

PROTECTION OF MINORS IN COMPULSORY EDUCATION

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 605.09

RECRUITMENT, INITIAL TRAINING AND

CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

OF PERSONNEL AND PROTECTION OF MINORS

IN COMPULSORY EDUCATION REGULATIONS

31st May, 2016

LEGAL NOTICE 206 of 2016, as amended by Act XXIX of 2019.

The title of these regulations is the Recruitment, Initial

Training and Continuous Professional Development and Protection

of Minors in Compulsory Education Regulations.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

"Act" means the Education Act;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for education;

"personnel" refers to all staff employed in a school.

Personnel in schools shall not be recruited unless such

recruitment is done through an open call for applications and such

recruitment follows an interview carried out by an interview panel

composed of at least one person having such adequate experience

in the area of working with minors in the educational area as may

be necessary.

Personnel employed in schools are to have a clean police

conduct certificate in accordance with the relevant provisions of

the Conduct Certificates Ordinance.

Applicants are to fill in a self-declaration form to disclose

any convictions, cautions, court orders and reprimands together

with relevant past or pending investigations that may affect their

suitability to work with minors.

Any call for application for personnel to be employed in

schools shall convey the school’s zero tolerance approach to child

abuse and harm.

Should schools accept character references for applicants

they are to verify the veracity of the contents of these references.

Schools are to provide induction training and mentoring for

its newly engaged personnel, which training shall include child

protection issues.

Schools shall provide information sessions on child

protection issues to any person working directly with minors within

the school premises, whether such person is an employee of the

RECRUITMENT, INITIAL TRAINING AND CONTINUOUS

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONNEL AND

PROTECTION OF MINORS IN COMPULSORY EDUCATION

school or not.

Each school shall designate a person whose role is to put

forward issues related to children’s well-being and to be the first

port of call in cases where children’s well-being is concerned.

Schools shall have a child protection policy in place which

shall include provisions of how the school is to deal with any

allegations relating to child abuse, whether such abuse occurs in the

school or outside.