Case Study: Busy Bees streamlines safeguarding and referencing with RefNow

How Busy Bees streamlined HR with RefNow

Busy Bees Nurseries, a major childcare provider, faced significant challenges with its manual reference-checking process, which was time-consuming and prone to risk. The HR team was spending hours daily on repetitive administrative tasks, diverting resources from strategic work and creating potential safeguarding oversights. To address this, they turned to the vendor RefNow and its automated Referencing service.

By implementing RefNow, Busy Bees automated their entire referencing workflow, from receiving requests to delivering secure responses. The solution from RefNow freed up significant HR time, ensured consistent and reliable reference outcomes, and enhanced safeguarding standards. The team reported that the platform transformed a complex, high-volume task into a simple, efficient process, with manual referencing time being cut dramatically.

Busy Bees

Ruth Hayzen-Smith

People & Culture Manager - UK