Safeguarding Information for Clubs

Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. Everyone should understand the importance of keeping people safe within our game. Herefordshire Cricket is committed to ensuring that everyone has a safe, welcoming and positive experience. We comply fully with the ECB Safe Hands Policy – this is the England and Wales’ Cricket Board’s policy. It promotes good practice, helps raise awareness and ensures people know what to do if they have any concerns about children or about the behaviour of adults in cricket.  ECB Safe Hands Policy

We ensure everyone who works in cricket (such as staff, officials, volunteers, team managers, coaches and so on) have a responsibility for safeguarding and understand how the “Safe Hands Policy” applies to them. We also ensure they are recruited and appointed in accordance with ECB guidelines and relevant legislation and are provided with support, through education and training, so they are aware of, and can adhere to, good practice and Code of Conduct guidelines defined by the ECB Safe Hands Policy.

Herefordshire Cricket Safeguarding Statement 

Clubs

All Cricket Organisations should have a qualified Safeguarding Officer as an essential part of their safeguarding structure. If your Organisation does not have an appointed Club Safeguarding Officer it should appoint one as soon as possible.

Training for Club Safeguarding Officers

Training for Club Safeguarding Officers

Club Safeguarding Officers are required to hold the following three certifications:

1) Safe Hands qualification (ECB course run in partnership with the NSPCC).

The ECB Safe Hands Workshop provides advice on the CWO role, along with the requirements and responsibilities of child safeguarding.

This is a face to face course and last approximately 3 hours. 

Please register using your full name, as it appears on your DBS certificate and ensure you register using an email address that is unique to you.

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 2) An ECB DBS Vetting Check.

ECB DBS is now completed online, this is a far quicker process than the old paper system. To create an online ECB DBS form the following information is required:

Full Name (including Title)
Date of Birth
Preferred Email Address
Club associated with
Role which requires a DBS e.g. All Stars Activator, Junior Manager, Umpire 
..and should be emailed to Claire Langford

3) Safeguarding Level 2 -

Safeguarding Level 2 is the new course from the Cricket Regulator Safeguarding Team on behalf of the ECB, which has replaced Safeguarding for Specialist Roles (SSR).  Book Here

Robust safeguarding helps to keep our cricket community safe and welcoming. This course will provide the learner with what to look out for and how to respond to concerns. 

The Audience:

Coach or Activator
Umpire
Committee Member
Safeguarding Officer

The aims and objectives of the course
- Create a safe and inclusive cricket environment
- Describe what a safeguarding concern is
- Respond appropriately to concerns
- Describe how to report and record safeguarding concerns

Every three years, requirements 1 and 3 must be updated, your DBS lasts for 1 year only.

Claire Langford

County Safeguarding Officer 01432 803640

Herefordshire Cricket Limited

safeguarding@herefordshirecricketltd.co.uk