Good Practice & Child Protection
Examine your own practice and recognise your responsibilities in protecting children from abuse. Protect yourself and your coaches by understanding good practice. Learn about child abuse and how to handle situations if you have concerns.
The workshop will enable you to:
- Identify good coaching practice to promote a positive relationship with children
- Identify sport situations and coaching practice that might constitute either poor practice or possible abuse
- Identify ways of dealing with your own feelings about child abuse and state what constitutes neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse
- Recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse and appreciate why reporting it is often so difficult
- Identify appropriate action if a child discloses he / she has been abused
- Identify appropriate action if abuse is suspected and explain the roles and responsibilities of other experts (e.g. police, social services)
- Describe appropriate practice that reduces the likelihood of abuse occurring
Course Comments
'Course content was made interesting by using individuals views and opinions. A useful course. Clear and good tutor'
'Extremely informative seminar pitched at appropriate level with excellent delivery by tutor. Thanks'
'Excellent'