Code of Conduct for Coaches, Officials and Volunteers

Rudgwick Netball Club

Code Of Conduct For Coaches, Officials and Volunteers

As a coach, official or volunteer of Rudgwick Netball Club I agree to work within the following guidelines as far as possible.

  As a coach, official or volunteer of Rudgwick Netball Club,
  I will:-Ensure that I am never left alone with one child;Avoid situations where an individual child (that is not my own) and myself are completely unobserved;Only provide physical support where it is appropriate, openly and according to guidelines provided by England Netball;Encourage an open environment (i.e. no secrets, I will show respect to junior members by being willing to explain my decisions. In turn, junior members should feel free to express their views without fear, and in the knowledge that these views will be given due consideration.);When working with the teams, agree with parents/guardians when it is appropriate to enter a changing area.  As a coach, official or volunteer of Rudgwick Netball Club,I will avoid:Spending excessive amounts of time alone with young people away from other coaches/ parents/ guardians;Taking young people (apart from my own relations) alone on car journeys, however short.

  As a coach, official or volunteer of Rudgwick Netball Club,
  I will never:-Engage in rough, physical or sexually provocative games, including horseplay; Share a room with a young person (apart from my own relations);Allow or engage in any form of inappropriate touching;Allow young people to use inappropriate language unchallenged;Make sexually suggestive comments to a young person, even in fun;Do things of a personal nature for young people that they can do for themselves;Invite or allow young people (apart from my own relations) to visit or stay with me at my home unsupervised;Allow allegations made by a child to go unchallenged, unrecorded or not acted upon.

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