Safehire partners with ISASA to support safer recruitment and safeguarding

Safehire has partnered with the Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa (ISASA) to give its 800+ member schools access to Digital Risk Screening (DRS) to enhance their safer-recruitment and safeguarding processes.

Independent schools make decisions that give people access to pupils, sensitive information and positions of trust. Most South African schools rely on two types of checking when recruiting:

• Formal checks such as police clearance, NRSO, and references only show whether someone has a conviction.
• Informal Google or social media searches are narrow, subjective and easy for a candidate to show you what they want you to see.

Neither provides the necessary visibility needed in today’s AI-enabled world to make an informed hiring or promotion decision.

Safehire DRS addresses both limitations. It adds a POPIA compliant search across lawfully accessible open source information on the surface, deep and dark web, within a defined and proportionate scope. AI helps search and organise the information, then human analysts check identity, relevance and context before findings are documented. Schools receive an easy to understand report in as little as 24 hours.

ISASA member schools will have a direct route to the service and a preferential rate through the member’s portal.

Contact us direct or our partner TPN to add DRS to your background screening.