In order to carry out your responsibilities you need to follow these two simple steps:
a) Promote and Support by:
• knowing who your CFA Welfare Officer is and how to contact them
• knowing who every Club Welfare Officer is and how to contact them
• ensuring all Club Welfare Officers complete The FA’s Safeguarding Children and Welfare Officer Workshops
• knowing why certain roles require an FA CRB check and how The FA CRB process works
• knowing what The FA’s Respect Programme requires of everyone
• highlighting the benefits of the Safeguarding Children education programme for club officials and parents
b) Monitoring:
• your clubs to ensure they have a Safeguarding Children Policy, Anti-Bullying Policy and Equality Policy
• buy-in to the Respect Programme (especially the distribution of codes of conduct and adherence to these)
• repeated incidents of poor behaviour and liaising with your CFA Welfare Officer about these
• individual clubs use of The FA’s Safeguarding Children best practice guidelines (e.g. Responsible Recruitment, Travel, Trips and Tournaments, Anti-bullying policy
and Safeguarding Children Policy template)
• that all Club Welfare Officer’s are assisting those in their clubs who require a CRB check to do so via The FA CRB Unit
To view a hard copy PDF of the above and other relevant documents please click on the links on the right hand side of the page or visit the Safeguarding Downloads section of the website.
To access further information please print off a copy of the Welfare Officer Information Pack which can be found on the right hand side of this page.