Safeguarding / Welfare Officer(Michelle O’Sullivan)

Michelle is responsible for:

• Foster a positive, child-centred environment within the club.
• Support the club in its child safeguarding responsibilities.
• Assist in implementing the organisation's safeguarding plan at the club level.
• Serve as the initial contact for child welfare concerns from instructors, volunteers, parents, children, and young people.
• Implement the organisation's reporting and recording procedures.
• Maintain contact information for local children's social care, police, and the Local Safeguarding Children Board.
• Promote the club's best-practice guidance and code of conduct.
• Ensure adherence to the organisation's safeguarding training.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality.
• Promote anti-discriminatory practices.

Our safeguarding policy can be downloaded. Please see the bottom of the page.

To report child abuse (or a concern about a child) online, please use the link below.https://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/keeping-adults-and-children-safe/protecting-children/report-child-abuse-or-concern-about-child?fbclid=IwAR0XlVrcR5A7GVh_3A9B2Fk4JHPlPSbax-UjfvCWZrbYoaGt6bYEJGcrHo8