Tonbridge Angels FC is committed to ensuring that it affords the highest priority to safeguarding children and adults at risk.
The Club fully accepts and embraces its responsibility for the safety and well-being of children and adults at risk who engage in any way in any activity carried out with TAFC. Their welfare is of paramount importance. It is the duty of all adults working at TAFC to safeguard the welfare of children and adults at risk by creating an environment that protects them.
The Club’s Safeguarding Policy aims to ensure that we:
- Safeguard all children and adults at risk who interact with the club.
- Demonstrate best practice in the area of safeguarding children and adults at risk.
- Develop a positive and proactive welfare programme to enable all children and adults at risk to participate in an enjoyable and safe environment.
The Key Principles of the Policy are:
- The child or adult at risk’s welfare is and must always be the paramount consideration.
- All children and adults at risk have a right to be protected from abuse regardless of their gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief or age.
- All suspicions and allegations of poor practice or abuse will be taken seriously and responded to efficiently and appropriately.
- To ensure that staff, coaches, parents and other adults who come into contact with children and adults at risk are good role models.
- Working in partnership with other organisations, children and adults at risk and their parents/carers is essential.
- To provide staff and volunteers with the overarching principles which guide our approach to safeguarding. The club believes that a child or adult at risk should never experience abuse of any kind. We have a moral and legal responsibility to promote the welfare of all children and adults at risk and to keep them safe. We are committed to this practice in a way that protects them.
- To handle sensitively, in confidence, any safeguarding concerns raised within the club.
A full copy of the policy can be found here [insert link].
To raise a safeguarding concern, please contact our the Club Welfare and Safeguarding Officer, Charlie Cole by emailing Charlie.Cole@tonbridgeangels.co.uk.
