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Wiltshire Club Welfare Officer
Forum
Chippenham 20th February 2013
Club Welfare Officers Forum
Welcome
Outcomes
• Safe Hands Kit Bag update
• Changes to disclosure and barring: What
you need to know
• Drugs and Cricket in Wiltshire
• Policy Task
• Questions and Answers
• Safe Hands Workshop
ECB Safe Hands Update
• No changes to the Safeguarding guidelines for the current year, although
processes have changed (DBS)
• The current list of persons who require disclosure checks has been
temporarily withdrawn whilst consideration is given to the new Disclosure
and Barring Scheme. However, we will continue run checks on all those
persons considered to have significant contact with young people. (No
Change)
Disclosure and Barring Scheme
Changes to
disclosure and barring:
What you need to know
The History
• The Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) was established from the
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. This legislation follows the
Bichard Report on the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica
Chapman.
• The VBS was to have been operated by the CRB and a new body
created by the legislation - the Independent Safeguarding Authority
(ISA). Members of the workforce of paid employees and volunteers who
work with children and vulnerable adults would required to join the VBS.
• The scheme would monitor any relevant information from the police,
employers or others, and the ISA will bar those who are unsuitable to
work with the vulnerable groups.
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012
• Provides:
– Clear, well managed arrangements for safeguarding.
– Scales back the criminal records and barring system to
“more proportionate levels” (under the current scheme 9
million people would require CRB Checks, under the new
scheme this would be closer to 5 million)
– Definitions for regulated activities: “work which involves
close and unsupervised activity with vulnerable persons
including children”
Major Changes from 1st January 2013
• New definition of a regulated activity. (Next Slide)
• Repeal of a controlled activity
• Repeal of registration and continuous monitoring
• Minimum age at which someone can apply for a CRB/DBS
check will be 16.
• More rigorous relevancy test when information is released for
an enhanced check.
Regulated activity relating to children
• The new definition of a regulated activity relating to
children comprise only:
• Unsupervised activities:
– teach,
– train,
– care for or supervise children,
– or provide advice/guidance on well being
– drive a vehicle only for children.
Not Changing
• Appropriate referrals must be made to the ISA
• You must not engage in regulated activity someone who is known to
have been barred by the ISA
• Everyone within the definition of a regulated activity will remain eligible
for an enhanced disclosure check.
Update Service
• This will become available in early 2013
• The Update Service will allow individuals, if they so choose
and on payment of a small fee, to subscribe to this service.
• If an individual needs more than one criminal record check
they can reuse their existing certificate. The host organisation
will be able to check online to see if it is up to date and no
changes have been recorded.
• This is intended to avoid many unnecessary repeat
applications.
• More information will be made available by the Home Office
once it is available. In the meantime it is business as usual.
•Any Questions
Drugs and cricket:
Wiltshire's concerns
Wiltshire’s Concerns
• Wiltshire Cricket does not knowingly have any major issues involving the
taking of drugs and/or doping substances.
• To say there are no issues would be to bury ones head in the sand.
• During the last season there were a small number of instances of players
reportedly smoking class B substances in and around cricket
establishments.
• Each of these is being dealt with on an individual level.
• Whilst none of these incidents directly relate to children, cricket s a sport
where we readily integrate young people into the adult game, Wiltshire
Cricket Board does not condone this and recognises the risk to young
people who may be exposed to this activity.
ECB
• The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is committed to ensuring
that cricket is a drug free sport. Anti-doping programmes across all
sports are intended to promote ethically fair and drug-free sport, with the
aim of producing sportsmen and women who are competing and winning
fairly.
• It should be noted that the ECB recognise that the supplying of alcohol to
any person under the age of 18 is a drugs related matter and constitutes
a breach of the Safe Hands Policy.
• There has also been questions raised about the appointment of persons
with drugs related offences which have appeared on CRB forms.
Wiltshire Cricket Board
• Wiltshire does not have a drugs related policy
• Wiltshire relies on the advice of the ECB when dealing with incidents
• This is a weakness in our own Governance and therefore a Policy is
required in order to have a clear strategy for dealing with incidents.
• Your Task:
Bearing in mind we have a blank canvas, each group come up with
five key “things” (definitions, strategies, sanctions) that you might
want included in such a policy.
In the meantime……………
• Please refer any drugs related issues back to the County Welfare Officer
to discuss appropriate action.
Q & A / Any further matters