Devon Cricket Board - Safeguarding & Protecting Children

Safeguarding & Protecting Children

See below for details of current Safeguarding and Protecting Children workshops.

Safeguarding & Protecting Children
This workshop aims to increase awareness of safeguarding and protecting children, helping coaches to recognise signs of abuse and poor practice, and deal sensitively and effectively with issues that arise. It also prompts a review of coaching practice to ensure that sport provides a positive and enriching experience for children.

Date	Time	Venue	Course Provider
Courses run by DCB
For existing qualified coaches only who have already completed a Safeguarding & Protecting Children workshop and need to renew their qualification, there is now an online module provided by the ECB called 'Safeguarding Young Cricketers'. This covers you for the purposes of your cricket coaching only and is not transferable to other sports or other roles (such as welfare officer). If you feel the Safeguarding Young Cricketers module is appropriate to you, please download a booking form HERE and email it to Claire Colman on claire.colman@devoncricket.co.uk.
Courses run by other organisations
11/11/2015 - Plymouth Life Centre	6.30pm - 9.30pm	Plymouth Life Centre, Mayflower Drive, Plymouth, PL2 3DG	Plymouth City Council
23/11/2015 - Plymouth life Centre	6.30pm - 9.30pm	Plymouth Life Centre, Mayflower Drive, Plymouth, PL2 3DG	Plymouth City Council

Safeguarding & Protecting Children 2 : Reflecting on Practice
Build on knowledge gained since the first 'Safeguarding and Protecting Children' workshop and share best practice through scenarios and reflection upon the experiences of participants. Target audience - UKCC Level 1 and 2 coaches and others who are involved in the provision and delivery of sporting activities for children and young people, and who have previously attended the first 'Safeguarding and Protecting Children' workshop.

Date	Time	Venue	Course Provider

The Safeguarding & Protecting Children workshop is designed to help coaches protect yourself, the young people you are coaching and your employer by understanding and following good coaching practice. Learn about child abuse and how to handle situations if you have concerns.

This workshop will help you, the coach to:

identify good coaching practice to promote a positive relationship with children
identify sport situations and coaching practice that might constitute either poor practice or possible abuse
identify ways of dealing with your own feelings about child abuse and state what constitutes neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse
recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse and appreciate why reporting it is often so difficult
identity appropriate action if a child discloses he/she has been abused
identity appropriate action if abuse is suspected and explain the role and responsibilities of other experts (e.g. police, social services)
describe appropriate practice that reduces the likelihood of abuse occurring

This course is a requirement of ClubMark and needs to be renewed every three years.

DCB Ltd, University of Exeter Sports Hall, Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QN Company Registration Number: 7024773