Course Description
For everyone who works with young people, this workshop focuses on making football safe. The course teaches our football workforce to promote best practice to protect young people. Candidates will learn how to recognise signs and symptoms of abuse, and understand fears involved in these concerns.
Course Pre-requisites
· Candidates must be at least 16 years of age (coaching/ standalone)
· Candidates must be at least 16 years of age (refereeing)
Course Duration
· Three hours
Course Aims & Objectives
The workshop will raise your awareness and specifically help you to be able to:
· Identify and build on best practice in football
· Recognise signs of abuse and identify what behaviour causes concern
· Identify the actions to take if you have a concern and who can help
· Develop your action plan for change
Course Content
Introduction
· Setting standards
· Building a network of designated persons
· Responsible recruitment
· Your responsibilities
Best Practice
· Introduction
· Your practice
· Poor practice
· Promoting best practice
· Reviewing your practice
· Changing behaviour
· Self-reflections
What is Poor practice? What is abuse?
· Introduction
· What is child abuse?
· Effects
· Types of abuse
· Believe it or not
· Incidence of abuse
· Signs and indicators
· Self-reflections
What to do about poor practice and abuse?
· Introduction
· Emotional responses
· Who to contact
· Dealing with possible poor practice and/or abuse in a football setting
· Dealing with concerns outside the football setting
· Responding to a child who discloses
· Recording your concerns
· Dealing with bullying
· Self-reflections
What Next?
· Taking action: for you, your club, team or organisation
· Taking action for yourself
Please note to access this online application, you will need a FAN (FA Number).
If have ever been involved in football or taken an FA Qualification, it is highly likely you already have a FAN.
If you do not know your FAN or password, or need to create a FAN, please use our FAN FINDER tool by clicking to register/retrieve your details.
Please be aware that if you already have a FAN, and create another FAN, this could cause delays in being confirmed on the course and any qualifications being awarded.
If the FAN Finder says you haven't got a FAN, and you think you have, then please click here for a full guide on how to locate it.
Please enter your unique FAN and password below:
|
|
|