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27/10/2008
Heart of Golf conferences
A series of two-day "Heart of Golf" Conferences are taking place across the country from November 2008 to March 2009, offered by the English Golf Union, with the support of the Golf Club Managers’ Association.
The conferences will provide information and guidance on a range of issues, (such as handicapping and the rules, marketing your club, junior initiatives, and how to access funding and grants) directly to clubs through a series of presentations and workshops. Incorporated in the conferences are "Safeguarding and Protecting Children" Workshops, which run during the day, and the sports equity based "A Club For All" workshops, which take place in the evening.
Places may be available on either or both of these workshops for clubs who are working towards or have been awarded GolfMark, by making separate bookings at a rate of £25.00 per person for Safeguarding and Protecting Children (including lunch) and £20.00 per person for A Club For All (no refreshments included.)
For full details of the workshops please visit the Heart of Golf conferences page.
27/10/2008
Club Welfare Officer Training
Children in Golf had hoped to offer the Time To Listen Workshop for Club Welfare Officers in 2008, but due to a lack of registration for the pilot events earlier this year, the workshop is still under development. It is important that your club registers the details of their Club Welfare Officer with the England Golf Compliance Administrator, so that we may contact Welfare Officers as soon as the workshop is available in their area. Without this information it is difficult to plan the best location to run workshops to achieve the best attendance.
Please send the name, address, telephone number and, if possible, email address of your club's nominated Welfare Officer to Karen Cassidy either by e-mail: karen@englishwomensgolf.org or by post; Karen Cassidy C/O English Women's Golf Association, 11 Highfield Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 3EB.
28/07/2008
Research into the effect of child protection on volunteering
It is often claimed that modern safeguarding measures deter volunteers from coming forward to help out with junior sport. However, according to a report commissioned by sportscotland, Children 1st and the Scottish Sports Association into the effect of child protection on volunteering, support for child protection policies and procedures is high amongst the voluntary sector.
For more information, and the full story, please click here.
17/07/2008
Template forms available in new format
A number of clubs and volunteers have asked for the template forms that are available in the appendices to the Guidelines for Safeguarding Children in Golf to help them implement their safeguarding procedures to be available in a format that allows them to be changed and printed off for their own use.
The forms are now available in pdf format, with the facility for some fields to be amended, for instance to add the name of your golf club or the child, and printed off or saved as required.
Click here to go to the templates.
Workshop announcements
19/11/2008
New Safeguarding and Protection Workshop announced:
CIG Workshop 28/01/2009 Ulverston Golf Club, Cumbria
09/11/2008
New Safeguarding and Protection Workshop announced:
CIG Workshop 15/12/2008 Dukinfield Golf Club, Cheshire
09/11/2008
New Safeguarding and Protection Workshop announced:
CIG Workshop 10/12/2008 Bromborough Golf Club, South Wirral
23/10/2008
New Safeguarding and Protection Workshop announced:
CIG Workshop 24/11/2008 Castle Eden Golf Club, Hartlepool
17/10/2008
New Safeguarding and Protection Workshop announced:
CIG Workshop 27/11/2008 Henley Golf Club, Warwickshire
Press Release 18/01/2008
New Guidelines for Safeguarding Children In Golf
The Children in Golf Strategy Group (CiG) is proud to announce that following an extensive review by both the Group and volunteer representatives from the major stakeholders, the Guidelines for Safeguarding Children in Golf have been overwhelmingly approved and adopted by all of the games authorities.
The previous document, The Children in Golf Guidelines is now obsolete and will be replaced by the new publication.
The Guidelines have been produced to help and support County Unions, County Associations, clubs, members, coaches, PGA Golf Professionals, staff, volunteers and parents to fulfil their roles and responsibilities in this important area of the game of golf.
Guidance on how to write and implement essential policies and their supporting procedures, Codes of Conduct and specific guidance on how children and those responsible for their safety can be protected from the very basics of this comprehensive advisory publication.
Chairman of CiG, David Owen said: "I am delighted that all the major stakeholders involved in golf have given the "thumbs up" to the revised Guidelines. It has taken a considerable degree of effort and patience in gaining the consensus of all parties. I am confident that what we now have is a useful and usable package of advice that will support all of us involved with children playing golf".
The Guidelines will be available from 1st March 2008 and all English affiliated Clubs and Counties will be sent copies. A copy will also be sent to everyone who has attended one of the Safeguarding in Protecting Children (SPC) workshops run in England by golf the past 18 months.
Other Home Unions and CiG partners will issue the Guidelines under their own established systems.
The Guidelines will also be available to download free through the CiG Web site www.childreningolf.org, or by hard copy at the online shop on the EGU Web site www.englishgolfunion.org for the price of £5.00 inc P&P and will be included within the documentation issued to all future attendees of SPC Workshops.
24/08/2006
Introducing Children in Golf Child Protection workshops
Workshops are a useful way of obtaining more information about child protection, to ask questions, and gain advice about specific issues that you have encountered in your work with young golfers. Children in Golf has a number of tutors licensed to deliver the sportscoachUK workshop “Safeguarding and Protecting Children”.
The workshops are run in different ways, according to the home country where you live.
England: Children in golf Workshops
Ireland: www.gui.ie
Scotland: www.scottishgolfunion.org
Wales: www.golfdevelopmentwales.org
Helping Keep Your Child Safe in Sport
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has produced a leaflet for parents, providing guidance on how to best support their child playing sport in a club environment. Download the leaflet in PDF Format. If you would prefer a hard copy please email karen@englishladiesgolf.org
The "Helping Keep Your Child Safe in Sport" leaflet suggests some questions that parents should ask sports clubs about the safeguarding measures that they should have in place, to ensure that their children can participate in their sport in a safe and enjoyable environment. As part of Children in Golf's ongoing comitment to ensure that golf is a sport in which children can enjoy and flourish in safely, we recommend this leaflet as essential reading for parents/carers of any child who is thinking of taking up golf as a new sport or is already a member of a club , and would encourage any club wishing to provide copies to parents.
Committed to child protection in golf
Children in Golf is a partnership of Governing Bodies and organisations of Golf throughout the UK and Ireland committed to ensuring that the sport of golf is one within which children and young people involved can thrive and flourish in a safe environment
The aim of the Children in Golf Guidelines is to ensure all those involved in golf, whether a young player, parent, golf club or golf professional are aware of their responsibilities and what to do if they have a concern about the welfare of a child or young person.
The Guidelines contains a wide range of information and guidance that will help all those involved in golf develop the best practices that safeguard children and young people. The NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit is pleased to support the important work that the Children in Golf Group have undertaken in developing this Guidelines.
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