Training and Workshops
Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport

This is a face-to-face delivered UK Coaching workshop, designed to safeguard and protect children and vulnerable individuals in sport. The Jersey-specific referral system will also be included.

Audience: This course is intended for anyone who works with children or vulnerable individuals either in a professional or voluntary sports capacity.

Aim: The aim of this course is to raise participant’s awareness of the risks to children and vulnerable individuals through abuse, and for them to gain an understanding of their role and responsibility in safeguarding.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course the participants should be able to:

– Understand what is meant by the terms ‘Safeguarding’ and ‘Child Protection’

– Recognise how society’s beliefs, values and attitudes towards children and child abuse have changed over time

– List the four main categories of abuse as well as their signs and indicators

– Identify barriers to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable individuals

– Respond effectively to concerns about the safety and welfare of a child/young person following their own agency and SPB policies.

Additional Learning

For further learning, welfare and safeguarding training is delivered through NSPCC’s ‘Time to Listen’ workshop. This was designed predominately for welfare officers but is open to anybody who would like to advance their safeguarding knowledge. Therefore, the ‘Time to Listen’ workshops are recommended for all Welfare Officers, committee members, coaches and officials. For details of the next ‘Time to Listen’ workshops delivered by Jersey Sport, please visit: www.JerseySport.je/workshops.

Sports organisations have a responsibility to ensure adults and vulnerable individuals are appropriately safeguarded. As part of this, appropriate policies, procedures and training should be in place. Details of the Foundation Adult Safeguarding workshops, in partnership with Jersey Sport and the Jersey Safeguarding Partnership Board, can be found at: www.JerseySport.je/workshops.

Jersey Sport are available to discuss the implementation of safeguarding and governance at your sports organisation. Get in touch with our Sports Partnership Officer: Libby.Barnett@jerseysport.com

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