A new resource to keep young sports stars safe from harm
Sports clubs across the Humber are urged to take advantage of a completely free and extremely useful toolkit of resources to safeguard children in sports settings. This toolkit has been designed specifically for sports clubs and has numerous templates and examples of policies and procedures that should be in place to keep sport fun and children and young people safe from harm.
The creation of this toolkit has been led by the Humber Sports Partnership via the Humber Safeguarding Through Sport Group, which means it is endorsed by the four local authorities and the local safeguarding children board.
Kathy Rowe from Hull Safeguarding Children’s Board is impressed with this new resource “Safeguarding children is everyone’s responsibility and it is important that children and young people are free to develop and enjoy the wide range of sporting opportunities that are available to them locally. They and their parents want to be confident that they can enjoy such activity in a safe environment with trusted and trustworthy adults”.
“This toolkit is invaluable in offering guidance and practical advice to all organisations on how to ensure the safety and well-being of our local children and young people and, if used to its full potential, will ensure consistent practice across all organisations. The Hull Safeguarding Children Board is very pleased to have been involved in this initiative’.
Joe Duffy, an experienced Sports Coach feels that this is valuable resource to local sport “This resource will help clubs where they may lack full awareness of certain issues and also provides templates and guidance on the best ways to develop policies and procedures that can be adopted within these clubs. Clubs may lack the know how to create some of these but this toolkit offers everything you need within a CD-Rom”
Clubs now have a resource which offers the opportunity to develop safeguarding policies and procedures and receive the guidance from a range of national governing bodies. Some of these resources can easily be adapted by the clubs themselves to create professional forms such as accident or incident reports within their organisation.
The toolkit is available in two formats, a simple to use CD-Rom attached to the Humber Sport Safeguarding Policy available from the Humber Sports Partnership by contacting us on 01482 387491 or online within the safeguarding section of this website
The Pictures below show Geoff Ogden and Gary Hood from the HSP with members of Hull Stingers Wheelchair Basketball Club.
