Child protection

Developing a Child Protection Policy

Club Child Protection Officer

What Child Protection training is available?

Safe recruitment and selection of volunteers

How do I keep up to date with child protection issues?

Where can I get more information?

Recruiting volunteers

Download the Child Protection in Sport Accord 2006

Scottish Government Child Protection website

Disclosure Scotland website

Central Registered Body in Scotland website

Governing Body Child Protection Guidelines

Safe recruitment and selection of volunteers

All clubs have a responsibility to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to prevent unsuitable people from working with children.  Procedures on the safe recruitment and selection of volunteers should therefore be incorporated into your club’s child protection policy. 

This subject is no more important than any other aspect of your child protection policy, however the issue merits being raised here in that many clubs are still looking for specific support in a particular aspect of the recruitment and selection of volunteers - disclosure checking.

To access disclosure checks we recommend that you first check with your NGB if it can process checks on your behalf.  If not, there are other avenues such as the Local Sports Council or the Volunteer Centre that may be able to do this for you.  If there is not an organisation that can do this for you locally, you can register directly with the Central Registered Body in Scotland who will process Disclosure checks free of charge for volunteers. 

Information on this subject is available on pages 21- 24 of the 'Governing Body Child Protection Guidelines' document (see Documents). 

The websites of Disclosure Scotland and the Central Registered Body in Scotland can be found under ‘See also’.