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Child Protection Policy
ACTIONS ALWAYS TO BE TAKEN
• All young people must have a parent/guardian/carer present during a
session.
• All people with regular access to children must have a C.R.B. check.
• All parents are responsible for their young persons behaviour.
• All coaches are up to date with technical skills and child protection
training.
• Designated child protection officer will deal with any child protection
matters, in strictest confidence.
• Parental consent is needed to coach all young people.
YOU SHOULD NEVER
• Strike a young person.
• Use profane, insulting, harassing or offensive language.
• Spend time alone with young people.
• Take young people alone on car journeys, no matter how short, without
first consulting with parents.
• Share a room with young people.
• Take young people to your home where you will be alone with them.
• Do things of a personal nature for a young person, that they can do
for themselves.
• Intrude into the private life of a young person.
• Engage in rough, physical or sexually provocative games.
• Allow or engage in any form of inappropriate touching.
(One on one coaching is done openly and minor physical contact should
be done with the agreement of the archer).
• Make suggestive comments to a child or young person, even in fun.
• Allow a young person to use inappropriate language unchallenged.
• Reduce a young person to tears as a form of control.
• Allow allegations of abuse or practice to go unrecorded.
• Allow a sexual relationship to develop between someone with regular
access and a young person between 16 and 18 years of age whilst there
is a relationship of trust between them.
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