 Safeguarding
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CHILD PROTECTION POLICY
ROTHWELL GYMNASTICS :
Is committed to ensuring that those working with children and vulnerable adults adopt best practice to ensure the health, safety and welfare of the participants and staff. The club will endeavour to promote the highest standards of care for all members, staff and officials by:
- The adoption of the BG Health, Safety and Welfare guidelines.
- The adoption of the BG guidelines for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable adults.
- The appointment of a Welfare Officer (Child Protection Officer) to whom grievances or complaints can be made confidentially.
- Ensuring that staff are suitably trained in Child Protection and Health, Safety and Welfare issues.
- Ensuring that coaches and officials have been screened to confirm their suitability to work with children. Where appropriate this will include Criminal Record Bureau disclosure.
- Ensuring that best coaching practice guidelines are followed at all times.
- Ensuring that grievances or complaints are dealt with promptly and in accordance with the grievance procedures.
- Ensuring that a minimum of two responsible adults are present at all training sessions or events.
- Ensuring that the participants and/or parents are aware of the purpose of videoing, filming or photography during training or events.
- Having a zero tolerance level of poor practice, bullying or any potential form of abuse.
Children and Vulnerable
Adults Protection Policy
Rothwell Gymnastics strives to ensure that children and vulnerable adults protected and safe from harm whilst participating in gymnastics classes. We endeavour to promote the highest standards of care for participants and willingly accept responsibility for:
· A duty of care for all children and vulnerable adults whilst they are on the premises
· Specifically appointing and training a staff member for the role of “Children & Vulnerable Adults Protection and Welfare Officer” (contact details displayed on notice boards), this person is available as a confidential and accessible route for people to voice their concerns or allegations regarding issues of protection and welfare
· Dealing with all issues of protection and welfare sensitively, swiftly and in confidentially
· Enforcing a code of conduct for all members, backed up by a disciplinary policy (both documents displayed on noticeboards)
· Operating a strict coaches code of conduct and employee disciplinary procedure
· Carefully recruiting coaches and ensuring that they hold both valid training qualifications, and certification from the criminal records bureau indicating their suitability to work with children
· Promoting the ongoing training and development of coaches both through the British Gymnastics Coaching Schemes, and in child protection training
· Ensuring that situations do not arise wherein a child is alone and unobserved with a coach/adult either on the premises, or during travel to a competition. At all times on site children will work in groups or with other coaches and children in the gym. On visits off-site where it is necessary for children to travel with a coach, where possible more than one adult will attend the trip, where this is not possible the children will not travel unless with the express permission of the parents/guardians
Rothwell Gymnastics strives to ensure that children and vulnerable adults protected and safe from harm whilst participating in gymnastics classes. We endeavour to promote the highest standards of care for participants and willingly accept responsibility for:
· A duty of care for all children and vulnerable adults whilst they are on the premises
· Specifically appointing and training a staff member for the role of “Children & Vulnerable Adults Protection and Welfare Officer” (contact details displayed on notice boards), this person is available as a confidential and accessible route for people to voice their concerns or allegations regarding issues of protection and welfare
· Dealing with all issues of protection and welfare sensitively, swiftly and in confidentially
· Enforcing a code of conduct for all members, backed up by a disciplinary policy (both documents displayed on noticeboards)
· Operating a strict coaches code of conduct and employee disciplinary procedure
· Carefully recruiting coaches and ensuring that they hold both valid training qualifications, and certification from the criminal records bureau indicating their suitability to work with children
· Promoting the ongoing training and development of coaches both through the British Gymnastics Coaching Schemes, and in child protection training
· Ensuring that situations do not arise wherein a child is alone and unobserved with a coach/adult either on the premises, or during travel to a competition. At all times on site children will work in groups or with other coaches and children in the gym. On visits off-site where it is necessary for children to travel with a coach, where possible more than one adult will attend the trip, where this is not possible the children will not travel unless with the express permission of the parents/guardians