Every parent, teacher, and school administrator’s top priority is keeping children safe. Many states require all past employers to verify that their employees did not have a misconduct incident at previous school districts to ensure children's safety.
HR teams at school districts are busy and responsible for essential functions like hiring, onboarding new employees, and payroll. However, they are often asked to do more with less. Keeping track of paper forms, updating manual spreadsheets, and sending manual follow-ups to past employers are all tasks that can be automated.
Enter, Robinform
With Robinform, your employees can easily fill out a digital form that is automatically sent to all of their past employers to verify that there were no misconduct incidents during their employment. Robinform also provides follow-up options including fax and voicemail for unresponsive districts, saving busy HR teams time.
School districts use Robinform to keep track of all misconduct forms for their employees, as well as any incoming forms for their signature, ensuring they are staying in compliance with the state requirements.
It’s about more than a form
While verification from past employers is important to stay compliant with state regulations, it doesn’t stop the problem. Schools continue to experience gaps and misconduct incidents cost districts millions of dollars in legal fees, fines, and settlements, not to mention the unspeakable damage done to the victims.
The first step is addressing the disjointed, manual process many districts rely on to complete the misconduct forms. With a digital system, school districts decrease the response time from weeks to days in order to identify potential risks before they come into contact with children.
HR teams also easily track disclosures stored digitally to show which employees are cleared and see who has been flagged. This is unlike paper forms or a spreadsheet, which can become complicated and cumbersome, or even get lost in the shuffle.
We aren’t stopping there
As we said - it’s about more than a form. The first step is making it easier for all school districts to stay on top of any known misconduct incidents with potential employees.
The bigger picture is that schools need a way to identify the potential for misconduct before it occurs. And that is where we are headed.
If you want to talk about how we can help you keep your students safe, send us a note.