Accreditations

Absolute Education is a division of Absolute Recruitment UK Ltd, a Corporate Member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the REC Education Sector Group, the REC Childcare Sector Group, The Association of Labour Providers (ALP) and is licenced by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA).

The REC is the representative body for the UK’s £27 billion private recruitment and staffing industry with a membership of more than 8,000 corporate members comprising agencies and businesses from all Industry sectors.

Member agencies are regularly, independently inspected so you can be sure that their basic practices have been approved as safe and legal.

Member agencies sign up to a code of practice, mandating that they must live up to the principles of:

• Respect for Laws

• Respect for Honesty and Transparency

• Respect for Work Relationships

• Respect for Diversity

• Respect for Safety

• Respect for Professional Knowledge

• Respect for Certainty of Engagement

• Respect for Prompt and Accurate Payment

• Respect for Ethical International Recruitment

• Respect for Confidentiality and Privacy

By choosing a Member agency, you have direct access to the REC’s Complaints and Disciplinary Procedure. This provides you with a route through which you can take action if the agency fails to live up to its promise under the Code.

REC Sector Groups

Whilst REC Corporate accreditation may engender trust from our clients, in order to provide the best possible service to our Clients, we need to ensure that we are at the forefront of developments within the Education and Childcare Sector.

As an accredited member of the REC Employment Sector Group, we can do exactly that.

Furthermore, the rigorous validation procedures and criteria for membership are a demonstration of Absolute Education’s dedication to professionalism in the provision of staffing services to Education.

Membership of both Sector groups is dependent on Absolute’s commitment to unique Codes of Practice. These can be downloaded on our Vetting Procedures page in the Schools section of this website.

The ALP is the trade association for organisations that provide and use temporary, contract and seasonal workers within Gangmaster Licensing Authority sectors and is a centre of expertise and good practice for both labour providers and labour users alike.

The GLA regulates those who supply labour or use workers to provide services in agriculture, forestry, horticulture, shellfish gathering and food processing and packaging. Members are subject to regular audits to ensure their compliance with statutory employment law. Whilst it has no links with the Education sector, meeting the GLA’s compliance criteria is an excellent benchmark for a labour provider’s commitment to quality.