Duty of Care and Safeguarding Children

We are sure you will join ECB in wanting everyone, in particular children*, to feel welcomed and to have a positive, safe and fun experience at your club, whatever their involvement in the game, at whatever level. By specifically setting out to meet the needs and wishes of children and young people, the club as a whole will benefit.

The ECB understands its responsibilities towards children and is committed to providing policies, procedures, guidelines and support for everyone in cricket raising awareness of their responsibility to safeguard children and to understand their duty of care.

Safeguarding is about how the club operates to create a culture that welcomes, involves and develops children and young people, helping direct the game and the provision of services to meet the needs of participants. By providing a safe and welcoming environment where the views of children, young people and adults are sought and taken into account, ensuring the necessary checks are made and the preparatory work is done allows good practice to flourish, and any poor practice or abuse to stick out ‘like a sore thumb’.

A club has a duty of care to ensure any child involved in related activities is protected from reasonably foreseeable forms of harm. This means acknowledging that the duty of care exists and putting practical measures in place to minimize the likelihood of harm arising. This section of the ECB Clubmark assists in discharging that duty.

*For the avoidance of doubt, a child is any person under the age of 18 years

Source: www.ecb.co.uk
Page last updated by PG – 2 October 2015