Safeguarding & Protecting Children
3 hours
CIMSPA CPD valid for 12 months
Organisations
If you are an organisation working in sport and physical activity and would like to run a face-to-face workshop in your area, find out more information here.
On this online workshop, raise your awareness of the tell-tale signs of abuse, and gain the tools and confidence needed to deal with any issues sensitively, appropriately, and effectively
Overview
- Identify and recognise good coaching practice and the implications for your coaching.
- Refresh your knowledge around recognising safeguarding issues, what to do, and just as importantly, what not to do.
- Explore your values and feelings in relation to child abuse, and recognise their potential impact on your response.
- Take appropriate action if concerns about a child arise.
- Learn from and pick the brains of our expert tutors, all of whom have lived Safeguarding experience – such as club welfare officers, schoolteachers, or police officers.
Every child deserves to enjoy playing sport and engaging in physical activity in a safe and supportive environment, where they feel heard, understood, and valued.
This interactive online workshop will help you recognise and respond to concerns a child may be experiencing, or be at risk of experiencing, harm, neglect, or abuse.
You will learn the importance of person-centred care and taking an individualised approach to your coaching practice that puts the child or young person at the heart of every session.
Through interactive scenarios and discussions with people from different sports and activities, you will have the opportunity to explore the consequences of those decisions in a safe and supportive environment, helping to increase your confidence to deal with safeguarding issues effectively and counteract the latest threats to emerge that could impact on the physical or mental health of children in modern Britain.
The course has been awarded 2 CPD points by the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA).
Attending the online workshop
Although you can access our online classroom using any mobile device, the best experience will be achieved by using a laptop or PC. Once booked, the link to your online classroom will be provided via a confirmation email you receive from UK Coaching.
You will need the following equipment:
- Headset or a device with speakers.
- Device with a microphone.
- Ability to connect directly into your router (Wi-Fi access may drop out).
Safeguarding is a ‘Minimum Deployment Requirement' for many governing bodies of sport. The ‘Minimum Deployment Requirements’ are seen as the basic standards every coach needs to meet to carry out their role safely and effectively.
Find out more about deployment standards:
- Recommended Guidance for Coaches on the Standards for Deployment.
- Practical Considerations When Coaching in Different Environments.
The online workshop can also be attended by all those responsible for organising children’s sport (eg within governing bodies of sport, local authorities, sports and leisure centres, and sports clubs) and those who lead or deliver children’s sport programmes (eg coaches, leaders, instructors, development officials, administrators, volunteers and parents), an estimated 76% of whom undertake these roles on a voluntary basis.
Check with your governing body of sport for further information, and to ascertain whether or not attendance at a safeguarding workshop is required before you commence coaching. Governing bodies of sport set their own standards for safeguarding training. The NSPCC’s recommendation is that anyone with regular responsibility for children and young people should ideally undertake face-to-face training and the same applies to the Minimum Deployment Requirements. However, these are extenuating circumstances and UK Coaching believe it is important that Safeguarding training is still made available at this time.
Online Workshop training allows delegates to ask questions in a safe environment facilitated by a qualified safeguarding tutor. It also provides the opportunity to discuss specific safeguarding issues that arise during the training. Refresher training is available online. Recommended to be completed at three-yearly intervals.
Please note, this online classroom session is for over 18’s only. If you are aged between 16 and 18 years, you can book onto our Safeguarding & Protecting Children for Young Coaches online classroom.
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