Checks for childcare

Want to make safeguarding simpler? Use Zinc.

Keep children safe and secure with background checking tools designed for nurseries and early childhood care — while spending less time on manual admin.

Trusted with over 21,000 checks for childcare and education orgs to date
Average candidate satisfaction score of 4.8/5
Average screening turnaround time of 3 days
Loved by users on G2

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Hire the best

Simplify the hiring journey

Build an efficient candidate experience so you can fill talent gaps faster. Zinc integrates directly with your ATS and HRIS, reducing your admin and time to hire.

Automation makes it easy

Say goodbye to chasing references

Cut down on your admin and verify employment in seconds with Zinc’s automated HMRC integration. Plus, Zinc’s automated tools remind candidates and referees about outstanding actions — so you don’t have to. 

No more candidate questions

Get help exactly when you need it

Imagine: happier candidates, with fewer questions. Zinc’s chat support offers you and your candidates answers in under 90 seconds, so you’ll never waste time fielding candidate q’s again. 

Every essential check

Stronger compliance, without the stress

Create custom check packages that meet regulatory requirements, re-use them across different roles, and send them with a click — no more manual admin. Get DBS checks returned faster, and stay confident in your safeguarding process. 

“We're grateful to Zinc and the time it's saved us! I had my meeting with OFSTED and they were very happy with our use of Zinc.”

HR Manager

Zinc by numbers

Avg time
8
Days
The average turnaround time for a complete Zinc background check
employees checked
200
K
Employees checked and verified by Zinc (so far...)
time saved
90
mins
Admin time saved per candidate.
Candidate score
4.8
/5
How candidates rank their experience using Zinc.

Loved by our customers

“In terms of time saved it’s priceless, I am extremely happy. Its not just time and space back in my calendar but also my inbox! The implementations and the follow up sessions have been a great experience and very beneficial.”

Ashton Tull-Bent

People Ops Manager

“It’s working really well, it is nice, once a candidate’s profile is completed it automatically filters through to Bob. This has taken out quite a manual task for myself and the Zinc support team have been a massive help”

Natalie Peace

People Specialist

“We’ve had really positive feedback from our users, it’s a really smooth process and user friendly!”

Karolina Iskrova

People Ops Associate

“Our new person that joined us this week said it was really, really user-friendly. She was really impressed with how persistent you were in getting the references that were needed. From my point of view, it's just really easy. Makes my life easier and you feel kind of reassured that you are definitely going to get the checks in....really impressed so far with my experience with Zinc.”

Elizabeth Dillon

People and Culture Administration

Working with Zinc meant that we were able to demonstrate throughout the whole recruitment & onboarding process how much we truly do care about candidate experience.

Alana

Senior Talent Partner

“Having the process automated is great, it has reduced the time I am spending in the process. DBS checks are coming back in a matter of days means we have not had any issues with start dates as a result.”

Dominika Mielniczek

People Team Associate

“It’s working fantastically. The time saving element, which is one of the reasons we chose Zinc, has been excellent so far and the team have found it easy to use.”

Gareth Bowley

Recruitment Manager

“We have been using Zinc for nearly 2 years now and it has made a world of difference with our onboarding. Zinc saves us a huge amount of time, takes the admin off our team along with having all the references in one place. We can click a button and everything is done for us, we will never go back to manual reference checking”

Craig McElroy

Talent Acquisition Manager