CHILD PROTECTION POLICY

Hinckley United Juniors Football Club acknowledges and accepts, as its main responsibility, the well being and safety of the children and young persons who are playing or training at the club. It does so in the belief that placing their welfare at the centre of their concerns provides a solid foundation for the development of the younger players of the future and for effective child protection practice.

Objectives :

Hinckley United Juniors Football Club…

• Promotes and supports good outcomes in terms of health and development for its students.
• Enables parents and others members of the students family to be as involved as is practicable in a working relationship with the club.
• Recognises the significance of ethical and cultural diversity.
• Acknowledges its responsibility to set high football and social standards.
• Expects that all adults having contact with students will provide good role models of behaviour, be honest and take feelings of others into account.
• Seeks opportunities for celebrating student’s success and recognises achievement, effort and good behaviour.
• Recognises that good behaviour will be achieved if all those involved in the club have a clear and mutual understanding of the aims of the club and if systems of training are  implemented efficiently.
• Provides a disciplined environment where students will work together taking pride in themselves and their surroundings.

Child Protection

Hinckley United Juniors Football Club adopts the policy of the F.A. on child Protection. Following consultation with the local Social Services Department, the club adopts the guidelines and procedures on child protection given in the local council’s publication “Child Protection Inter-Agency guidelines”.

The club recognises that the Social Services Department, the NSPCC and the Police have a statutory Duty to protect children and young persons at risk. The club accepts that it must work in partnership with these agencies when child protection issues arise.

In general, the only time when your son or daughter may be on their own with a club volunteer or another child’s Parent would be when they are transported to and from training or matches. We expect all adults in this situation to act in the best interests of the children.