ALL clubs require:
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A Club Safeguarding Officer (CSO) or Welfare officer.
Ideally this person should not be a club chair or a coach. This person should be assigned the role on ENgage. CSO's need a minimum Social/Supporting membership.
A Club Safeguarding Policy
Examples, guidance and templates for creating a Club Safeguarding Policy
(listed can be found here: England Netball |
Safeguarding Policies and Guidance)(Links to EN Website, needs to be confluence)Documents
L2 coaches, the club safeguarding officer and other people involved in regular contact with children or adults at risk should have the relevant training (.
For more information here: England Netball | about the relevant training for club members, please visit:
Training and Education.(Links to EN Website, needs to be confluence)
Coaches and anyone having regular contact with children and adults at risk should have an up-to-date enhanced DBS check via England Netball (more information here: England Netball | DBS). (Links to EN Website, needs to be confluence)We don’t accept DBS certificates via work or other volunteer roles If your club has under 18 members the Club Safeguarding Officer must have a DBS check carried out via England Netball. We don’t accept DBS certificates via work or other volunteer roles.
For more information about England Netball’s DBS policy, please visit:
DBS Information
The Club Safeguarding Officer should ensure their details are publicly available and shared with players, parents, volunteers and coaches.
The Club Safeguarding Officer should keep an up-to-date record of the training and DBS checks mentioned above and ensure people renew these every 3 years
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A useful checklist for the start of each season England Netball | Club Start of Season Support(Links to EN Website, needs to be confluence)
Useful pages to assess your club’s safeguarding effectiveness |
: – Ann Craft TrustInformation on age bands, including young players ‘playing-up’ into adult teams: England Netball | Competition Governance(Links to EN Website, needs to be confluence)Connect with
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Posters or information about safeguarding, safety, inclusion, mental health, online safety and raising concerns at the club visible in club venues, websites and social media platforms
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Communicating with Parents – UK Coaching
Regular communication with parents, carers, players and coaches about these issues
A kind, inclusive environment in your club, your teams and into the wider netball family.
Do you encourage people to challenge inappropriate or poor behaviour whoever is responsible – even if it is the coach.
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The best clubs ensure parents know how to support their children and keep them safe. They also communicate regularly with parents and carers about safeguarding matters.
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Some ideas here on how to do this. – UK Coaching and Communicating with Parents .(Link 404 error)
Parents are encouraged to ask questions and to contribute ideas to the club.The club should have clear expectations of parents’ behaviour towards players and coaches during matches.
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Or see ‘Guide for managing parent behaviour – an exercise for clubs’ in the documents below.
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Safeguarding should be a subject that children, young people and adults at risk are familiar with in your club – not just who the Safeguarding Officer is, but where to find out more information.
Young people and adults at risk should be consulted with and listened to. You could consider regularly seeking feedback via meetings, 1:1 chats or surveys about how the club is run, opinions on the coaching style etc.
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Coaches are there to facilitate sessions that are fun and involve everyone, as well as improve technique and performance. Clubs, volunteers, parents and players should look out for coach practices that fall below what is expected, develop into poor practice or present safeguarding issues. Coaches should involve players and parents/carers; encouraging them to ask questions, to support the coach and the players and to get involved.
The following page has advice for coaches
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If your club uses an external Strength and Conditioning or other coach the club should check they are DBS checked and suitably qualified
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Guidance on the following is available via the document links at the bottom of this page:
recognising, responding to and preventing abuse and poor practice
some typical case examples and what to do
safe recruitment
adult to child ratios
day, overnight and foreign trips
extreme weather
printable safeguarding posters
codes of conduct
medical and photographic consent forms
social media, photography and live streaming
for all other policies and guidance documents click here: England Netball | Safeguarding Policies and Guidance(Links to EN Website, needs to be confluence)
And for when you have a concern
The documents below might help you (hit the LOAD MORE + button for more documents):
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“Example Concerns and what to do”
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“Recognising, Responding to and Preventing Abuse”
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For our newsletters click here: England Netball | Safeguarding Communications(Links to EN Website, needs to be confluence)
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To view and download Guidance, Polocies and Guidance, please visit this page:
Safeguarding Policies and Documents
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To raise a safeguarding concern, please visit this page:
I want to report a Safeguarding Concern
