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.
Terms and Conditions
Please ensure that you can attend the date before booking a place onto a course. Furthermore, you must meet the minimum requirements for the course and failure to abide by the terms and conditions may lead to administration charges being imposed on the registrar. Also we will complete checks on candidates claiming to be from FA Charter Standard Clubs to ensure candidates are part of the club. Candidates failing to be part of an FA Charter Standard club will be required to pay the full course fee.
Cancellation Policy
Lincolnshire County Football Association adheres to a strict cancellation policy. For all course cancellations within 14 days of the course starting there will be an administration charge of 20% per course.
If you cancel your place on the course before the 14 day period, you will be charged £5.00 to cover administration costs.
Please contact the Football Development Department on 08449 67 07 08 or [email protected] with any questions or queries.
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