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Related Workshops

Suffolk FA offer the following workshops on Safeguarding Children:

Safeguarding Children

This is a three hour interactive workshop which takes you through best practice and Safeguarding children. Topics covered are:

  • Why do we need to protect children in football?
  • What are they key principles of best practice for Coaches, Managers, Match Officials, First Aiders, Volunteers etc?
  • Identifying the forms of abuse and what constitutes these
  • Understanding the signs and indicators of abuse
  • Identifying behaviour in football that may cause concern
  • Understanding feelings in relation to concerns including abuse
  • Action to take if you have a concern or receive a disclosure from a child
  • Identifying who is there for support

Welfare Officer Workshop*

This three hour workshop is for Club or League Welfare Officers and builds on top of the learning from the Safeguarding Workshop. Topics covered are:

  • How do you make best practice ‘live’ in the Club or League
  • Key points of legislation that underpins Safeguarding
  • Roles of the Statutory Agencies
  • The FA Safeguarding Network
  • Dealing with cases of poor practice or abuse
  • A certificate of attendance will be issued after the workshop.

* Please note, the pre-requisite for attending the Welfare Officer Workshop is completion of an FA Enhanced CRB disclosure and attendance at a Safeguarding Children Workshop.

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