Higher Blackley REBELS Safeguarding Children Policy believes if you take part in football you have the right to have fun and stay safe. Your coach/team manager is there to help you learn safely and enjoy football.

This means respecting you as a person as a player and being a good role model – leading by example, not speaking to you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable, not bullying you to make you do things.

Treating you as an individual, thinking about you and your team mates and not just about winning or scoring goals, making sure the pitch/playing area and equipment are safe for you to use, having the right qualifications to coach, making football fun!

If your coach/team manager  needs to have physical contact to correct a technique or your positioning, they need to explain this to you and check you are ok with this.

If you are not comfortable with physical contact you have the right to say NO.

Remember enjoy your football – don’t let anyone else spoil it.

Getting help and advice.

If you are worried about the way a coach, team manager, referee or anyone else involved in football is behaving towards you there are people you can talk to. Are you comfortable talking to your parents, coach/, parent liason officer  or club welfare officer or someone else?

Talk to someone that you trust or click on the links below for help and advice

http://www.bullying.co.uk/
http://www.childline.org.uk/
http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

Safeguarding Statement

Every child or young person, defined as any person under the age of 18, who plays or participates in football should be able to take part in an enjoyable and safe environment and be protected from abuse. This is the responsibility of every adult involved in football.

Higher Blackley REBELS JFC  recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of all children and young people by protecting them from physical, sexual or emotional harm and from neglect or bullying. HBRJFC is therefore committed to working in order to provide a safe environment for all children and young people to participate in the sport to the best of their abilities for as long as they choose to do so.

Key principles

• The child’s welfare is, and must always be, the paramount consideration
• All children and young people have a right to be protected from abuse regardless of their age, gender, disability, culture, language, racial origin, religious beliefs or sexual orientation
• All suspicions and allegations of abuse will be taken seriously and responded to swiftly and appropriately
• Working in partnership with other organisations, children and young people and their parents and carers is essential. The FA and HBRJFC  is committed to working in partnership with the Police, Social Services Departments and Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards (LSCB) in accordance with their procedures. This is essential to enable these organisations to carry out their statutory duties to investigate concerns and protect all children and young people.