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Develop Your Coaching Workshop
Safeguarding and Protecting
Children (16─18)
February 2010
For use by those accredited through sports coach UK’s
Head Office Education and Training Team
The Learning Agreement
In the workshop we will be promoting:
equity
confidentiality
professionalism
ownership
a child-focused approach
personal safety (emotional well-being)
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 1
Workshop Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
identify and recognise good coaching practice
and the implications for your coaching
recognise your values and feelings in relation to
child abuse, and understand their potential impact
on your response
establish the signs and symptoms of child abuse
and poor practice
take appropriate action if you have concerns
about a child
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 2
Values and Feelings
What are values?
How are values formed?
Who influences your values?
What are feelings?
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 3
Safeguarding v
Child Protection?
Safeguarding (the
umbrella) ─ all children
involved in our clubs
and activities
Child protection ─
one panel of the
umbrella-specific children
who are at risk of
suffering significant
harm (this may relate to
one or two children in
our sessions).
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 4
Legal Framework and
Government Guidance
What does
legislation do?
Children Act
1989
Children Act
2004
Safeguarding
and protecting
children
Recruitment
and selection
of staff and
volunteers
Other
legislation
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 5
Safeguarding
Vulnerable
Groups Act
2006
Human Rights Act
UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child
Legal Framework and
Government Guidance (cont’d)
Working Together to Safeguard
Children 2006:
– Guidance document for organisations,
working with children and young people
– States how organisations and individuals
should work together to safeguard children
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 6
Safeguarding and Protecting
Children in the Context of
the Legal Framework
Duty of care –
legal and moral
responsibilities of
organisations and
individuals
Safeguard and
protect children
Positions of trust
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 7
Learning Outcome 1
Identify and recognise good coaching
practice, and the implications for
your coaching
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 8
Clip 1 - Poor practice (010)
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 9
Code of Practice for Sports
Coaches – Key Principles
Rights – coaches must respect and champion the
rights of every individual to participate in sport
Relationships – coaches must develop a relationship
with athletes (and others) that is based on openness,
honesty, mutual trust and respect
Responsibilities: personal standards – coaches
must demonstrate proper personal behaviour and
conduct at all times
Responsibilities: professional standards –
to maximise benefits and minimise the risks to athletes,
coaches must attain a high level of competence through
qualifications, and a commitment to ongoing training
that ensures safe and correct practice
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 10
Rights
Coaches must respect and champion the
rights of every individual to participate
in sport
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 11
Coaches should:
create an environment where every individual
has the opportunity to participate
create and maintain an environment free of fear
and harassment
recognise the rights of all athletes to be treated
as individuals
recognise the rights of athletes to confer with
other coaches and experts
promote the concept of a balanced lifestyle,
supporting the well-being of the athlete both in
and out of the sport
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 12
Relationships
Coaches must develop a relationship with
athletes (and others) that is based on
openness, honesty, mutual trust and respect
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 13
Coaches should always:
promote the welfare and best interests of
their athletes
empower athletes to be responsible for their
own decisions
clarify the nature of the coaching services being
offered to athletes
communicate and cooperate with other organisations
and individuals in the best interests of athletes
Coaches must not:
engage in or tolerate behaviour that constitutes any
form of abuse (ie physical, sexual, emotional, neglect)
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 14
Responsibilities:
personal standards
Coaches must demonstrate proper personal
behaviour and conduct at all times
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 15
Coaches should always:
be fair, honest and considerate to athletes
and others in their sport
project an image of health, cleanliness
and efficiency
be positive role models for athletes
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 16
Responsibilities:
professional standards
To maximise benefits and minimise the risks to
athletes, coaches must attain a high level of
competence through qualifications and a
commitment to ongoing training that ensures
safe and correct practice
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 17
Coaches will:
gain governing body of sport coaching
qualifications appropriate to the level at which
they coach
be professional and accept responsibility for
their actions
promote safe and correct practice in line with
codes of practice
provide a safe environment that maximises
benefits and minimises risks to athletes
make a commitment to providing a
high quality service to their athletes
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 18
Learning Outcome 2
Recognise your values and feelings in
relation to child abuse, and understand
their potential impact on your response
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 19
True or False?
1
Children are abused mostly by strangers
2
It is only men who sexually abuse children
3
Disabled children are less likely to be
victims of abuse
4
Girls are much more likely to be abused
than boys
5
In some cultures, it is acceptable for
children to be abused
6
If social services or children’s social care
are involved, children are usually removed
from their homes
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 20
True or False? (cont’d)
7
Children are resilient and, therefore, recover
quickly from abuse
8
Children under the age of five are more likely
to be abused than older children
9
More children are abused now than 20
years ago
10
Children often lie about abuse
11
There is widespread reported occurrence of
abuse in sport
12
Coaches have many opportunities to abuse
children emotionally, as well as physically
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 21
True or False Answers
1
False
7
False
2
False
8
True
3
False
9
False
4
False
10 False
5
False
11 True
6
False
12 True
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 22
Acceptable or
Unacceptable Behaviour?
1
A four-year-old child is left alone for half
an hour
2
A 12-year-old child is left alone in the house
for the evening
3
A five-year-old girl is sent to school in January,
wearing a thin cotton dress and a summer jacket
4
A 13-year-old boy goes without lunch and dinner
5
An instructor takes a group hill walking without
adequate clothing
6
A father smacks his 12-year-old daughter
because she arrives home two hours late
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 23
Acceptable or Unacceptable
Behaviour? (cont’d)
7
An organisation’s requirements for a particular
competition cause the performer to make abnormal
changes to her body composition/shape
8
A father bathes his 11-year-old daughter
9
A mother bathes her 10-year-old son
10
A female babysitter bathes a 10-year-old boy who
is physically disabled
11
A male coach enters the girls’ changing room to
talk before the competition
12
A male coach physically supports a young female
gymnast during a tumbling routine
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 24
Acceptable or Unacceptable
Behaviour? (cont’d)
13
A coach has sexual intercourse with one of his
16-year-old athletes
14
A male coach expresses his delight following a good
performance by slapping the buttocks of one of his
young female athletes
15
A parent has sexual intercourse with his or her child
16
A female coach works alone with a squad of
male athletes
17
Parents make their 16-year-old child help out in the
family shop every night and each weekend, rather
than allowing him/her to socialise with his/her peers
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 25
Acceptable or Unacceptable
Behaviour? (cont’d)
18
Parents constantly taunt their 12-year-old son
who hates sports and enjoys ballroom dancing
19
A teacher regularly undermines the efforts of a
15-year-old girl and publicly reports all the errors
she makes on her homework
20
A coach drives an eight-year-old child to
exhaustion and tears during training
21
A player calls another player names
22
Initiation ceremonies within sports teams
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 26
Feelings
Recognise your feelings about an issue
or concern
Disbelief
What action might
you take?
Anger
What action might
you take?
What would happen if your emotions
led your actions?
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 27
Learning Outcome 3
Establish the signs and symptoms of
child abuse and poor practice
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 28
Different Types of Abuse
Neglect
Physical
Sexual
Emotional
Bullying
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 29
Neglect occurs when adults fail to meet
a child’s basic physical and/or psychological
needs, and is likely to result in the serious
impairment of the child’s health or development
Examples of neglect include:
failing to provide a child with adequate food,
shelter or clothing
regularly leaving a child alone or unsupervised
failing to protect a child from physical harm
or danger
failing to ensure a child has access to appropriate
medical care or treatment
refusing to give a child affection and attention
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 30
Neglect
Examples in sport
Neglect in a sport situation could include a coach
failing to ensure children are safe and comfortable,
exposing them to undue cold or to unnecessary
risk of injury
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 31
Physical abuse occurs when someone
causes physical harm or injury to a child
(in this case)
Examples include:
hitting, shaking or throwing
poisoning, burning or scalding
biting, suffocating or drowning
giving children inappropriate drugs or alcohol
otherwise causing deliberate physical harm
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 32
Physical Abuse
Examples in sport
Physical abuse in a sport situation may
be deemed to occur if the nature and intensity
of training and competition exceed the capacity
of the child’s immature and growing body
This includes instances where drugs are
used to delay puberty, control diet or
enhance performance
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 33
Sexual abuse occurs when adults or other
young people (both male and female) use
children to meet their own sexual needs
This could include:
full sexual intercourse
masturbation, oral sex, anal intercourse or fondling
involving children in producing pornographic material
(eg videos or photographs)
showing children pornographic material
(eg magazines, videos or pictures)
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 34
Sexual Abuse
Examples in sport
There are situations within all sports in which the
potential for this form of abuse exists:
Some individuals have deliberately targeted
sports activities, in order to gain access to, and
abuse, children
There is evidence that individuals have sometimes
ignored governing body codes of practice, and used
physical contact within a coaching role to mask their
inappropriate touching of children
Some people have used sporting events as an
opportunity to take inappropriate photographs
or videos of sportspeople (including young and
disabled participants) in vulnerable positions
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 35
Emotional abuse is the emotional ill
treatment of a child, resulting in severe
and persistent adverse effects on his/her
emotional development. Although it can
occur in isolation, children who have suffered
neglect or physical or sexual abuse will also
have suffered some level of emotional abuse
Research shows that children who experience
an emotionally abusive environment are at a
higher risk of suffering other forms of abuse
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 36
The emotional abuse of children
of all ages can occur in a number of
ways, including:
imposing developmentally inappropriate
expectations on them
making them feel worthless, unloved, inadequate
or valued only insofar as they meet the needs of
another person
making their positive self-image entirely dependent
on sporting achievement and success
making them feel frightened or in danger
shouting at, threatening or taunting them
overprotecting them or, conversely, failing to give
them the love and affection they need
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 37
Emotional Abuse
Examples in sport
Emotional abuse in sport may occur if children are
subject to constant criticism, name-calling, sarcasm,
bullying, racism or unrealistic pressure to perform to
high expectations (this may be from parents or coaches)
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 38
Bullying is deliberately hurtful behaviour,
usually repeated over a period of time,
where it is difficult for those being bullied to
defend themselves. Bullying can be verbal,
written or physical.
Forms of bullying can include:
physical assaults
name-calling, sarcasm and racist taunts
threats and gestures
unwanted physical contact
graffiti
stealing or hiding personal items
being ostracised or ignored
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 39
Bullying
Possible indicators of abuse include:
unexplained bruising or injuries
sexually explicit language/actions
sudden changes in behaviour
something a child has said
a change, observed over a long period of time
The presence of one or more of these indicators
does not necessarily mean that abuse is occurring
In the first instance, you may wish to raise your
concerns with your head coach/mentor
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 40
Responsibility
It is not your responsibility to decide
whether or not a child is being abused…
…but it is your responsibility to act if you
have any concerns
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 41
Learning Outcome 4
Take appropriate action if concerns
about a child arise
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 42
What Are You Going
To Do?
Don’t panic! Stay calm; do not
show disbelief
Support the person making the
disclosure/allegation
Listen carefully
Write down exactly what is said
Take the concern seriously
Pass the information to head coach/mentor
Be aware of mirroring!
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 43
Reporting Structure
Governing
Body of
Sport Child
Protection
Team
Police
ChildLine
0800
1111
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 44
Head
Coach/
Mentor
Assistant
Coach/Young
Official
Children’s
Social Care
(Social
Services)
NSPCC
0808 800
5000
Poor Practice to
Potential Abuse
Poor practice
─ concerns
identified
(eg coach
swearing at
child for poor
performance)
Practice goes
unchallenged
Behaviour
accepted
(eg coach
regularly
swears at child
for various
reasons)
(eg verbal abuse
and swearing at
children seen
as acceptable
culture in club)
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 45
Workshop Outcomes
Can you:
identify and recognise good coaching practice
and the implications for your coaching
recognise your values and feelings in relation to
child abuse, and understand their potential impact
on your response
establish the signs and symptoms of child abuse
and poor practice
take appropriate action if you have concerns about
a child?
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 46
Where Next?
For further information on
sports coach UK workshops, visit
www.sportscoachuk.org
For further information on safeguarding
children, please visit www.nspcc.org.uk
For further information on safeguarding
children in sport, please visit
www.thecpsu.org.uk
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 47
Do You Have
Any Questions?
Thank you for your participation
and support
Good luck with your coaching
Safeguarding and Protecting Children (1618) Slide 48