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Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
Active Sports Partnership
Sports Safeguarding
Group
Following a number of meetings
in Spring 2005 with officers
of the Cambridgeshire Area
Child Protection Committee
and then a larger meeting held
at the Football Association
involving these officers, those
from the Peterborough Area
Child Protection Committee,
Cambridgeshire Police and the
Child Protection in Sport Unit
it was agreed to establish
a Sports Safeguarding Group
to link into the Local Children’s
Safeguarding Boards.
The outcomes for the group
include the following:
- Act as a conduit of information
and guidance, from statutory
to and then within sport
/ voluntary and vice versa
- Support the delivery of
training; to inform as wide
an audience of sports people
as possible of the safeguarding
agenda as well as ensuring
effective training and support
of nominated officers (ie
Club Welfare Officers)
- To improve communication
between agencies (with and
within sport), building on
good practice and ensuring
that children are safeguarded
irrespective of the sporting
activity they are engaged
in
- Develop tools and resources
to help sports people and
organisations to meet their
safeguarding requirements
(and contribution to wider
Children & Young People's
agenda)
- Communicating the message
that participation in sport
must, and does, match the
wider outcomes of Every Child
Matters (Stay Safe, Be Healthy,
Make a Positive Contribution,
Achieve Economic Wellbeing
and Enjoy and Achieve)
The membership of the Group
is detailed below:
Membership
Simon
FAIRHALL, Tim FITCHES, Amanda
BARTRAM – Active
Sports; Les MUNDAY – Peterborough
City Council; Jenny
LOWE – East
Cambridgeshire District Council; Gary
HUGHES – Cambridgeshire
County Council; Jim
HILL, Susanne WOLF – Cambridgeshire
Football Association; Julie
LEMON – Cambridgeshire
Cricket; Margaret
PROUD – Peterborough
Rugby Club; John
STANNARD - scUK
/ ECB Child Protection /
Welfare tutor; Pete
CORLEY – Huntingdonshire Sports
Centres Health & Safety
Co-ordinator; Les
HAMMOND – Director,
Training and Risk Management,
Peak Performance; Lynn
HOGARTH – Cambridgeshire
Council for Voluntary Youth
Services, Karen LITTLE – Barracudas, Phil
HUGHES (Fenland
District Council Sports Centres), Sally
STANHOPE (Cambridge
City Council), Rex
HOWLING (Barrister)
and then Officers from the Cambridgeshire
Local Children’s Safeguarding
Board (Carol WELLS, Ghislaine
MILLER), the Peterborough
Local Children’s Safeguarding
Board (Judy JONES,
Jo BRAMWELL) and Cambridgeshire
Police (Steve SELVES), Social
Care (Elaine PETCH), Education
Child Protection Services
(Sara ROGERS).
Agenda
of the Sports Safeguarding
Group |
Work
to-date |
Work
to do |
Follow-up
research questionnaire
to all participants on
sports coach UK Good
Practice & Child
Protection courses to
assess impact of the
training |
Implement
action from the findings
of the scUK Good Practice
Child Protection courses
research, and share with
other agencies (February
2006) |
Development
of a 1 hour training
course ideal for general
Sports Club, County Association
members / volunteers |
Delivery
of this 1 hour course
as widely as possible,
through training of group
of tutors (January 2006)
to deliver in their 'environment' |
Review
of the multitude of Child
Protection resources
and training programmes |
Placement
of these resources into
Cambridgeshire Library
Sports Resources Collection
for wider availability
(February 2006) |
Review
of support information
and guidance available
on the web, through National
Governing Bodies of Sport
in particular |
Placement
of these resources into
Cambridgeshire Library
Sports Resources Collection
for wider availability
(February 2006) |
Development
of the Sports Safeguarding
Group terms of reference |
Complete
membership of the Group
(ongoing) |
Presentation
of work being undertaken
to the Cambridgeshire
Local Children’s
Safeguarding Board and
Peterborough Local Children’s
Safeguarding Board |
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The
Sports Safeguarding Group
Conference and Workshop,
10th November 2005 |
Review
and appropriate follow-up
from this Conference
(February 2006) |
Involvement
with the Football Association
Child Protection Conference,
1st November 2005 |
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Development
of resource and training
course ‘Young People,
Drugs and Drug-related
Behaviour in the Sporting
Environment’ |
Development
of further resources
and training courses,
for example ‘Bullying
in sporting / community
environments’ (1st
meeting of working group
held January 2006) |
Preparation
of a flyer explaining
the role of the Cambridgeshire
Police in Safeguarding |
Preparation
of a flyer explaining
the role of the Social
Care in Safeguarding
(February 2006), and
others as appropriate. Publication
of these flyers (March
2006) |
Presentation
of evidence against the
CPSU ‘Standards
for Safeguarding and
Protecting Children in
Sport’ (Preliminary
Standard achieved January
2006) |
Working
with the Local Children’s
Safeguarding Boards and
the CPSU on the adoption
and implementation against
these Standards by Local
Authority sports sections |
Coordination
of a meeting with Private
Sports Organisations,
broadening the safeguarding
net |
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Development
of a checklist of minimum
requirements for Sports
Clubs / Associations
hiring education and
local authority facilities,
in partnership with County
Facility Managers Group
and Education Child Protection
Service |
Consultation
with wider group of Facility
Managers (10th March)
and then publication
of this work and roll-out
(April 2006) |
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Development
and signing of an Information
Sharing Protocol, fitting
with wider developments
(awaiting guidance from
LSCB) |
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Assist
in the roll out Designated
Officer Training within
sports organisations |
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Establishment
of a Communications Group
to consider communications
strategy, including website
and resource development,
together with launch
of 1 hour course. |
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Establish
timetable for meetings
and briefings for 2006,
including Sports Safeguarding
Group, and link with
Local Practice Groups |
Simon Fairhall
Active Sports Development Manager
and Chair of the
Sports Safeguarding Group
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
Active Sports Partnership
February 2006
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