Garda Vetting

Garda Vetting is one of the steps in the process of recruiting employees & volunteers. Everyone who will be working with children or vulnerable adults is required by law to be vetted before they commence their work, whether that work is paid or as a volunteer.

Vetting Application Process

STEP 1 (Vetting Applicant & Disclosure Clerk)

You will need to complete one or both of the following forms:

• Download and fill in the Inviter Form, GV1
• If you are 16 or 17 years of age – you will also need to get the Parental / Legal Guardian Consent Form, GV2 completed by the correct person. If you are 18+ you do not need to worry about this form.

You will also need to gather two pieces of ID as follows:

1. Photographic ID – a copy of your passport OR your driver’s license;
2. Proof of current address – a bank statement or utility bill (not mobile phone bill) that is less than 3 months old.

Once you have the form(s) completed and have gathered your ID you need to send / give them to your local church Disclosure Clerk. You can find a current list of Disclosure Clerk’s here (coming soon).

STEP 2 (Disclosure Clerk & Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ireland)

Once your local church Disclosure Clerk receives your vetting application & documents they will fill in a Verification of Identity, GV3 form. They will then send all of these forms along with your ID documents to us.

Upon receipt, we will check your application, store your documents electronically, and send your application (via South Dublin County Volunteer Centre who are authorised and employed by us to process all applications) to the An Garda Siochana National Vetting Bureau.

By law, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ireland is required to keep copies of your vetting documents for the duration of your employment / volunteering.

STEP 3 (Applicant)

Once your vetting application has been received by An Garda Siochana’s National Vetting Bureau, you will receive by email, an invitation from An Garda Siochana to fill out on online e-vetting form. This email will come to the email address you provided on the Inviter Form, GV1.

This is the final form that you will need to fill out. On this form you will need to provide full personal details, passport details, a full address history, information relating to any previous criminal convictions. Once you’ve filled this form out you will need to wait to hear from us.

If you do not receive a link in an email from An Garda Siochana to this form within a week of passing your forms and ID documents to your local church Disclosure Clerk, please check to make sure this form hasn’t gone into your spam / trash email folder. If you definitely have not received it, get in contact with your Disclsoure Clerk. If necessary they will contact us.

STEP 4 (Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ireland)

Once the National Vetting Bureau has issued your Disclosure Certificate it will be passed onto us via South Dublin County Volunteer Centre. Once we receive your Disclosure Certificate we will let you know.

Based on the information on your Disclosure Certificate, and once we have received your Children First E-Learning certificate, we will email you and the Disclosure Clerk in your local church to let you know that you can commence your volunteering / employment.

Level 1 Basic Safeguarding Training

Before you can commence working with children and/or vulnerable adults you MUST also have completed the Level 1 Basic Safeguarding Training.

To do this you will need to:

• complete the Introduction to Children First E-Learning Programme, and
• return your PDF certifcate to us on completion of the course, by emailing it to: safeguarding@adventist.ie

You can do this Level 1 Basic Safeguarding Training at any time. You do not have to wait until your vetting application has been submitted.

You may also have completed this Children First E-Learning Programme by request of another organisation. If you have, you do not have to do the E-Learning programme again, so long as your Certificate is dated within the last 3 years. You will need to send us a copy of your Certificate.

Your Level 1 Basic Safeguarding Training will expire 3 years after the date on your E-Learning certificate. At that point, you will be requested to complete the training again.