The West Cornwall Table Tennis League
Competitive Table Tennis for clubs and individuals in the area between St Austell and Lands End

CONTACT NUMBERS

Social Services Teams
Camborne 01209 714721
Penzance 01736 365714
St Austell 01726 63582
Truro 01872 278533

Out of hours 01208 251300

Police 08452 777444

ETTA Child Protection Officer
Judy Rogers 01424 722525

West Cornwall Table Tennis League Child Protection Officer
Adrian Noott 01326 315821



Table Tennis Club
Welfare Officers

BRIDGE - NEVILLE REED
CAPE CORNWALL - DAVID MAY
CORNWALL COLL - BILL MARTIN
FALM'TH DOCKS - ADRIAN NOOTT
FOREST GREEN - COLIN JULL
HARRIS MILL - TINA ROWE
MYLOR - MIKE TAYLOR
PEOPLES PALACE-MARTIN BURLEY
PENRYN COLLEGE - ADRIAN NOOTT
ST AUSTELL - GEORGE WRIGHT
ST IVES - K STURDY

Responsibilities
1.  Agree to, act on, promote and uphold both the  ETTAs Child Protection and Equity Policies.
2.  Ensure that club officials follow application and disclosure procedures as set out in the ETTAs Child Protection Policy and Guidelines during the appointment of coaches to work with young people.
3.   Attend Child Protection Workshops as appropriate to ensure an understanding and knowledge  of the most up to date information with relation to child protection issues.
4.  Ensure that all club personnel and coaches working with young people and vulnerable adults have attended child protection workshops.
5.  Ensure that all Child Protection and Equity updates and new initiatives from the ETTA are communicated to the club and its members.
6.  Check that Child Protection and Equity are included on all club committee meeting agendas.
7.  Demonstrate high standards of personal behaviour at all times promoting a positive role model for all young people who attend the club.
8. Support and advise the club committee to ensure that all young people are provided with a safe environment, which maximises benefits and minimises risks to them.
9. Promote relationships with all club members and others that  are based on openness, honesty, trust and respect and ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times.
10. Check that Club Welfare Officer’s contact details are readily available to all club members.
11. Maintain contact details for local Social Services and Police, and know how to obtain the Area Child Protection Committee Guidelines see above
12. Be the first point of contact with the ETTAs National Equity and Child Protection Officer.
13. Be the first point of contact for volunteers, parents, and children/young people where concerns about children’s welfare, poor practice or child abuse are identified.

 

Child Protection

We value the contribution made by all those who undertake table tennis coaching and other voluntary work with children and young people in West Cornwall. They have the support of the League Committee and access to training and resources. To protect them in their work, to safeguard the children in their care and in line with the ETTA child protection policy :-

·      Each club will appoint a Club Child Protection Welfare Officer who will be the first point of contact for volunteers, parents and children/young people where concerns about children’s welfare, poor practice or child abuse are identified. This duty, and the rest of this policy is not open to individual interpretation, either by that person or any other.

·      Any person volunteering to have dealings with young people will have to be approved by their Club’s Committee, be subject to the constraints of this policy and be prepared to undergo any necessary Criminal Records Bureau procedure required by the ETTA at the time. They will be expected to complete the necessary CRB application and declaration  forms.  A list of those approved persons will be held safely and confidentially by the League and kept up to date by the League’s Child Protection Officer.

·      Only persons who have the prior agreement of a child’s parent or who are on the League approved list of volunteers/helpers may take responsibility for or give lifts to any child or young person.

·      Every adult engaged in any activity with children or young people should endeavour to have at least one other adult present or nearby at all times. (This is as much for the protection of adults as for children.)

·      Casual visitors should not have access to children without the presence of the adult responsible for the group. Casual visitors should not accompany children to the toilet.

·      There will be effective management and monitoring of  those whom  the League Committee know may pose a threat to children and other vulnerable groups.

·      All persons working with young  people should meet with the Club Welfare Officer  to read and openly discuss the implications of the ETTA policy at least once every two years.

·      Knowing that children and young people choose those in whom they might confide with care, and being aware that they might well not choose one of the persons on the League approved list, as many people as possible and in any event, all members of the League Committee, shall be made aware of the ETTA policy document and as much as is relevant  of the document itself so that they are aware of their responsibilities

  We will :-

       1.      Display the childline telephone number and details of how to      contact     the Welfare Officer

2.      Always take what a child tells us seriously and always accept what they say in the first instance .

3.      Not ask leading questions or push for further information .

4.      Not promise confidentiality because it is highly likely that someone else will have to be told.

5.      Reassure the child that they have done the right thing in telling .

6.      Discuss what is to be done next including your own responsibility in perhaps having to tell someone else .

7.      Make careful notes of the conversation a soon as possible, recording in particular  the DATE, TIME AND LOCATION and whether OTHER PEOPLE  were present.

8.      Pass the information to

·        Social Services Team in the area where the child lives or the Police immediately  if physical or  sexual abuse is alleged or disclosed. It should be made clear that a child protection referral is being made.

·        Also inform the Club Welfare Office, League Child Protection Officer and the ETTA child protection officer if the alleged  abuse has taken place while the young person  was under the care  of the League or club or the alleged abuser is a table tennis coach or volunteer .

·        If there are concerns about the behaviour of a child  or that of a volunteer or  coach consult the ETTA Child Protection Officer to discuss these concerns.

   9.  Provide as appropriate, support for all parents and families in the
  table tennis fraternity, being aware particularly of parents whose children   have  suffered abuse.

  10. Ensure that all our work with  children and young people is adequately                covered by insurance                                                                    

  11.  Review this policy annually and update if necessary.

Finally the safety, suitability and cleanliness of premises in which children will play table tennis should be considered by the League Committee before allowing places to be used as venues for playing table tennis under the auspices of the West Cornwall Table Tennis League