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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