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.
FA Safeguarding Children
Date: Tuesday 25th April 2017 Time: 18:30 - 21:30
Venue: Leicestershire & Rutland County FA, Homes Park, Dog and Gun Lane, Whetstone, Leicester, LE8 6FA
Price: £29
Charter Standard Club price: £24
100% attendance is required to complete this course
Please note that there is no practical element in this course so please feel free to wear casual clothing.
Please bring a pen & notepad.
Please note to access this online application, you will need a FAN (FA Number).
If you 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. Please do not book onto the course on behalf of someone else as the qualification is accredited to the FAN booked on.
Please be aware that your Pricing decision of Non-Charter Standard/Charter Standard is being recorded and will be verified. If the incorrect option is knowingly selected this can result in your place on the course being revoked.
Cancellation Policy When cancelling with more than 21 working days’ notice – Full refund minus card transaction fee and minus £5.00 admin charge.
When cancelling between 20-14 working days’ notice – 50% refund minus card transaction fee.
When cancelling with less than 14 working days’ notice – No refund will be given.
Courses are NOT transferrable.
Terms and Conditions of Booking a course. Leicestershire & Rutland County FA does not accept any responsibility for the loss, or damage to, candidate property or for personal injury however caused. If you are suspended from football (by any County FA) then you are suspended from all football activity including courses. Should you miss any session(s) of any course you sign up to the Leicestershire & Rutland County FA reserve the right to remove you from the course, and no refund will be given.
You will respect the course tutor, course venue and other candidates and their points of view and you will understand that if your behaviour, language or conduct is deemed ‘unacceptable’ ‘offensive’ or ‘harmful’ for any reason, the Leicestershire & Rutland County FA and the venues reserves the right to exclude you from continuing on your chosen course and if necessary, future courses.
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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:
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