Benefits
Topic outline
- Introduction
Tracey Crouch announces the new Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts from the Budokwai Martial Arts Club.
- Benefits to you, your Club or Organisation
The Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts has been created to reward martial arts club/organisations and individuals who exercise good safeguarding practice in their delivery. It helps to demonstrate that you work to protect the children, young people and adults that are involved in your activities, as well as those coaches/instructors who are working with them.
Attaining the Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts "mark" will give confidence to parents, carers and educational establishments, that you engage with now, or in the future, and reassure them that you have quality safeguarding processes and practices in place.
The Safeguarding Code exists to reward deliverers who ensure that their coaches, instructors and volunteers have confidence and knowledge about how to report safeguarding concerns, and participants, the required information and suitable environment to enable them to report their own welfare concerns.To complete the Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts process you will be required to demonstrate good practice and working knowledge of a number of subjects within the duty of care area of sport delivery. The "mark" will be awarded to those who can evidence that they implement and maintain the required standards. We hope that this helps you find more members!
You can view checklists of required policies, documents and procedures in our Help and Support section of this website.
To get started, follow this link
- Benefits to Educational and Leisure Establishments
As an educational or leisure establishment you have a duty of care to check who is visiting your school/facility and working with children and young people.
The Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts has been created to ensure that clubs/organisations and individuals who have the correct policies and procedures in place to safeguard your children and young people are highlighted to assist you in making educated decisions.
As such, any martial arts club/organisation or individual who has completed the Safeguarding Code process will be able to supply you with the following for each coach attending your school/ facility:
- Disclosure and Barring Service Check
- Safeguarding policies
- A minimum coaching standard or coaching qualification
- Insurance documentation
- A coach’s “Code of Conduct”
- Reassurance that their coaches have completed relevant safeguarding awareness training
Organisations who have successfully signed up to the Safeguarding Code will be able to display the following mark in their marketing, have a dated certificate and feature on our map:
- Benefits to Parents and Carers
The Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts has been created to give parents and carers piece of mind when searching for martial arts clubs suitable for their children or adults in their care.
Funded by the National Lottery, this scheme was launched by the Sports Minister in early 2018 and is delivered through a group of partners and experts in safeguarding such as NSPCC Sport and Sport England.
As such, any martial arts club/organisation or individual who has successfully demonstrated to us that they have a good working knowledge of quality safeguarding practices will be able to reassure you that they have the following in place:
- Disclosure and Barring Service Check for all coaches, staff and volunteers (this checks that the individuals are safe to work with children and/or vulnerable adults)
- Safeguarding awareness training for all coaches, staff and volunteers
- All coaches will have hold a minimum coaching standard or coaching qualification
- *A Safeguarding Policy
- A Safe Practice Policy
- Insurance documentation
- A reporting system for reporting participants' safety and welfare
- A complaints process for parents and all participants
- Code of Conduct for children/young people, coaches/volunteers and parents
* This should be available to all staff, volunteers, parents and participants
If you're a parent or carer of a participant who attends a martial arts organisation without the Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts "mark", please encourage them to work towards meeting the required standards of the Safeguarding Code.
Download this document and hand it to your Coach!
When successful, an organisation will be able to display the following mark – look out for it!
