The Duchess of Cambridge's old school insists it has made changes after a watchdog found it did not carry out necessary safeguarding checks on teachers. The i has reported an Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) report on Marlborough College in Wiltshire found that recruitment checks on staff before they start working were not always performed.
This includes checking new teachers against barred lists for prior criminal offences, or against lists of those banned from working in schools, as well as making sure they had satisfactory references before they started work. "When criminal record checks have been delayed the school has not always ensured that an appropriate system of supervision is in place," according to the ISI.
It added that processes for safe recruitment were not "sufficiently robust" to protect pupils, and the school had "significant difficulty evidencing the required checks". "Whilst many checks were ultimately found to be in place, the processes involved were not sufficiently robust to ensure the welfare of pupils, particularly boarders," it said.
