Corsham Rugby Club is committed to ensuring the safety of children within the club. This policy will stand until such a point that the Rugby Football Union produces an official policy for child protection within rugby clubs.

Training Sessions:

• Corsham RFC will ensure that two supervisors will be present at every training session;
• Corsham RFC will ensure that at least one supervisor at the coaching session will be an RFU qualified coach;
• The coach will ensure that each child is checked against a register on arrival & departure;
• The coach will have every Child’s medical details to hand;
• The coach will be fully inducted into Corsham RFC risk assessment, injury/accident procedures and their responsibilities;
• The coach will ensure that all activities will be carried out using the appropriate safety equipment;
• All sessions will be carried out with the safety of the participants taken into account.

Competitions

Travelling to away games protocol:

• Coaches and Parents who provide transport to away fixtures must ensure the following:
• Ideally two adults travel in each car, or;
• An adult driving alone must have a minimum of three children in the car, if no second adult is available;
• All cars should travel together to the away fixture (under no circumstances are cars allowed to travel separately to the away fixture if adults carry children other than their own);
• The coach is to ensure that all cars transporting players are fit to do so.

Home game protocol:

• Coaches and Volunteers who assist on home fixtures must ensure:

  • That the changing rooms are supervised or locked during the match;
  • Two adults are present when players are in the changing rooms;
  • Children are supervised throughout the match (Includes warm up).

Corsham RFC will make every effort to inform children, their parents, coaches and senior players of the following policies / rules to ensure the safety of everyone involved with the club:

• Equity Policy;
• Child Protection Policy;
• Junior Club Rules;
• Code of Conduct for parents / carers;
• Code of Conduct for club officials and volunteers.

The club will have two child protection officers trained by the Sports Coach UK course ‘Good Practice and Child Protection’.

Contact details for these officers will be available on the club notice board. All comments will be treated in the strictest confidence. One officer will not be a member of the Corsham RFC committee.