Workshop costs: BCFA Child Welfare Officers: £10, BCFA Club Officials £20, Other County FA's £20
Safeguarding Children
This is a three hour interactive workshop which takes you through best practice and Safeguarding children. Topics covered are:
Why do we need to protection children in football?
What are they key principles of best practice for Coaches, Managers, Match Officials, First Aiders, Volunteers etc
Identifying the forms of abuse and what constitutes these
Understanding the signs and indicators of abuse
Identifying behaviour in football that may cause concern
Understanding feelings in relation to concerns including abuse
Action to take if you have a concern or receive a disclosure from a child Identifying who is there for support
Welfare Officer Workshop *
This three hour workshop is for Club or League Welfare Officers and builds on top of the learning from the Safeguarding Workshop. Topics covered are:
How do you make best practice ‘live’ in the Club or League
Key points of legislation that underpins Safeguarding
Roles of the Statutory Agencies
The FA Safeguarding Network
Dealing with cases of poor practice or abuse
A certificate of attendance will be issued after the workshop.
* Please note, the pre-requisite for attending the Welfare Officer Workshop is completion of an FA Enhanced CRB disclosure and attendance at a Safeguarding Children Workshop.
Cost: £10 (subsidised 50% by BCFA) for Welfare officers up until April 1st 2010
Cost £20 For all other club officials
WOW025 – Tuesday 23rd February 2010 – Chelmsley Town FC
WOW 026 - Tuesday 2nd March 2010 – Stourbridge, Ashwood Inn
WOW 027 - Monday 8th March 2010 – Birmingham County FA HQ, Ray Hall Lane
WOW 028 - Thursday 18th March 2010 – Birmingham County FA HQ, Ray Hall Lane
WOW 029 - Wednesday 24th March 2010 – Chelmsley Town FC
WOW 030 - Wednesday 31st March 2010 – Birmingham County FA HQ, Ray Hall Lane
WOW 031 - Thursday 8th April 2010 - Birmingham County FA HQ, Ray Hall Lane COST £25pp
WOW 032 - Tuesday 13th April 2010 - Birmingham County FA HQ, Ray Hall Lane COST £25pp
WOW 033 - Monday 19th April 2010 - Birmingham County FA HQ, Ray Hall Lane COST £25pp
WOW 034 - Wednesday 28th April - Birmingham County FA HQ, Ray Hall Lane COST £25pp
To book your place on a workshop please download, complete and return the attached work shop booking form to Anna King at the BCFA enclosing payment. You can either e-mail your form to anna.king@birminghamfa.com or post to The BCFA HQ, Ray Hall Lane, Great Barr, B43 6JF