Child Protection
UK:Athletics Welfare and Child
Protection Policy.
We believe that everyone involved in athletics should thrive, fare
well and enjoy safety, security and protection from abuse, maltreatment
or misconduct. Every individual involved in athletics events or
programmes is responsible for upholding this belief.
UK:Athletics also realise that they have a responsibility to ensure the
highest standard of care to all (including children) involved in
athletics. UK:Athletics will support and guide the home country
delivery partners and take all necessary steps to ensure the welfare of
all (including children) involved in athletics.
All athletics agencies will:
1. Accept the moral and legal responsibility to implement procedures to
provide a duty of care for all people (including children) within the
sport, safeguard their well-being and protect them from abuse.
2. Respect and promote the rights, wishes and feelings of people taking
part in athletics, including young people, disabled and/or vulnerable
adults.
3. Recruit train and supervise it’s employees and volunteers to adopt
best practice in all equality issues, to safeguard and protect young
people from abuse and themselves against false allegations.
4. Require staff and volunteers to abide by the athletics welfare
policy and procedures, athletics codes of conduct and grievance,
disciplinary and appeals procedures.
5. Respond to any allegations appropriately and implement the
appropriate disciplinary and appeals procedures.
UK:Athletics will support, guide, regulate, monitor and provide
accountability. They will work with the home countries to:
1. Promote adherence to the welfare policy through providing education,
training and information.
2. Develop good practice guidance in relation to recruitment,
selection, training of coaches, officials and volunteers.
3. Establish welfare officers at national level and support the
selection of welfare officers at local level.
4. Establish protocols between home countries and other sports and
organisations in relation to welfare policies.
5. Produce information material for those involved in athletics.
UK:Athletics will meet it’s moral and legal obligations in respect
of child protection, duty of care, and standards of welfare for all,
and expects it’s national and local partners to do the same.
This document sets out the key aims of the athletics welfare policy. It
also explains the principles that underpin this policy and that should
be observed by everyone within the community of athletics. It is the
responsibility of each home country athletic association to ensure that
it has in place approved procedures that will guarantee the
implementation of this procedure.
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