Child Protection

Child Protection in Sport

Active Sussex believes that the welfare and safety of children and young people is crucial whatever their age, culture, disability, gender, language, racial origin, religious beliefs or sexual identity.

To minimise this risk, Active Sussex is committed to working in partnership with all agencies to ensure that information and training opportunities are available for all staff and volunteers to guide them in best practice when working with children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Active Sussex has attained the Advanced Standard for Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport. These are national standards set by Sport England and the Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU)

www.thecpsu.org.uk

For further information on child protection issues, please visit the following sections within our website:

Vetting and Barring Scheme

The ISA registration stage of the Vetting and Barring Scheme has been halted to allow the new Government to conduct a remodelling of the scheme.

Theresa May, Home Secretary states ‘the Government has made clear its intention to bring the criminal records and vetting and barring regimes back to common sense levels. Until this remodelling has taken place, we have decided to maintain those aspects of the new Scheme which are already in place, but not to introduce further elements’.

NOTE: No one can register with the Independent Safeguarding Authority until further notice from the Government.

What parts of the scheme remain in place?

- You are still legally obliged to refer information to ISA if you have removed an individual from ‘regulated activity’ because they have harmed or there is a risk of harm to a member of a vulnerable group.

- You must not knowingly employ a barred person in regulated activity.

- The two new barred lists will continue to be administered by ISA and can be checked through an enhanced CRB disclosure (existing CRB requirements and eligibility criteria will remain).

What will still change?

- A new ‘CRB Application form’ was launched on 26 July 2010

- CRB will not process any applications made on the old form (Disclosure Application Form - DAF) .

What should you do?

- Ensure you and your members understand your current responsibilities under the Vetting and Barring Scheme:

- Understand what ‘regulated activity’ is;

- Understand who is a ‘regulated activity provider’;

- Understand the duty to refer a person to ISA;

- Ensure you are clear who is responsible for making referrals in your organisation.

- Train yourself and your members on filling in the new CRB Application form (if you wish to continue asking for CRB disclosures).

- Wait for further updates on the scope of the review and if/when people need to register.

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