LOCH
BROOM SAILING CLUB
Safeguarding
Policy - Good Practice Guidelines
Minimising
Risk
Whilst mainly aimed at organisers and volunteers, all should
be aware of these guidelines:
- Avoid spending any significant time working with children or protected adults in isolation
- Do not take children alone in a car, however short the journey
- Do not take children to your home as part of the Club’s activity
- Where any of these are unavoidable, ensure that they only occur with the full knowledge and consent of someone in charge of the activity or the child’s parents
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If you do have to help a child, make
sure you are in full view of others, preferably another adult
You should never:
- engage in rough, physical or sexually provocative games
- allow or engage in inappropriate touching of any form
- allow children to use inappropriate language unchallenged, or use such language yourself when with children or protected adults
- make sexually suggestive comments to a child , or protected adult even in fun
- fail to respond to an allegation made by a child or protected adult; always act
- do things of a personal nature that children or protected adults can do for themselves.
It may sometimes be necessary to do
things of a personal nature for children, particularly if they are very young
or disabled. These tasks should only be
carried out with the full understanding and consent of either
the child or protected adult (where possible) and their
parents/carers. In an emergency
situation which requires this type of help, parents should be fully informed. In such situations it is important to ensure
that any adult present is sensitive to the child and undertakes personal care
tasks with the utmost discretion.
Changing Room
Adults are requested not to enter the
changing room at times when children are changing before or after junior
activities. If this is unavoidable it is
advised that they are accompanied by another adult.
If
a child is having difficulty with a wetsuit or buoyancy aid, ask them to ask a
friend to help if at all possible.
The
use of any form of camera in changing areas is strictly forbidden. Such use by
young people will be considered as a form of bullying.
Photography
The Club (i.e. committee or event organiser) will seek
written consent from the child and their parents/carers before taking photos or
video at an event or training session or publishing such images either in print
or online. Parents and spectators should
be prepared to identify themselves if requested and state their purpose for
photography/filming. If the Club
publishes images of children, no identifying information other than names will
be included. Any concerns about
inappropriate or intrusive photography or the inappropriate use of images
should be reported to the Club Welfare Officer.