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
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
Equality: FA Learning will ensure that it treats people fairly and with respect and that it will provide access and opportunities for all members of the community to take part in, and enjoy, it's activities in an atmosphere free from harassment, bullying, discrimination or abuse. FA Learning will seek to provide a service which is appropriate to the needs of an individual and to make reasonable adjustments or provide support, where appropriate, to cater for those needs.
Course Schedule
Course Name
| Date
| Time
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Safeguarding Children
| Thursday 30 May 2019
| 6.30 – 9.30pm
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Venue: Stockport Sports Village, Lambeth Grove, Woodley, Stockport SK6 1QX
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Learners who cancel more than 2 weeks before a course commencing will be eligible for a full refund less a £20 administration charge.
Less than 2 weeks before candidates will not be entitled to any refund.
TRANSFER FEE:
Learners wishing to transfer will incur the following costs: (all courses)
A £20 administration fee will be charged.
PLEASE NOTE:
This course requires a minimum number of candidates for it to run successfully.
If there are insufficient learners, the course tutor has the right to cancel the course. If we do have to cancel the course for any reason prior to the commencement date you will notified and issued with a full refund
The deadline for registration has passed
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