Safeguarding
Safeguarding is for everyone: play, coach, participate safely
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Safeguarding and Welfare in clubs
UK Ultimate, as the national governing body of Ultimate in the UK, recognise our responsibility towards creating and maintaining a culture that protects all players, and especially children and young people, from abuse. To this end, UKU has created a safeguarding policy to help support clubs.
The UKU Safeguarding Committee has produced the following resources to help guide clubs:
Safeguarding Pack (includes a number of starting-point documents - also liked above)
Welfare pack (resources and support for Welfare officers - also linked above)
The UKU safeguarding policy is designed to act as a framework of action to support a culture of safeguarding.
We recommend that clubs adopt the “safeguarding pack” as their safeguarding policy, but club committees should also consider adaptations appropriate to their situation or adopt their own policies if the club committee has appropriate expertise.
It is understood that every club will have a different approach to governance and management, and UKU does not intend to enforce defined structures on club committees. However, when adopting the UKU Safeguarding Policy a club is agreeing to adhere to the stated principles of best practice. This is because the welfare of players, and especially that of children and young people, is paramount. It is this guiding principle that will define a culture of best practice in Ultimate.
The policy outlines "best practice" which defines a minimum standard for how a club and its members should handle children and young people involved in Ultimate. However, safeguarding goes much further than just adopting the policy from our website. To help, we have created a guidance document that explains the policy in an accessible manner.
UK Ultimate understand that fulfilling the requirements and gaining the knowledge & training needed to be responsible for young people can seem like an insurmountable task to get started. As such, we have created a guidance document that explains the policy in accessible language and with understandable and achievable steps.
We recommend that anyone in the role of Safeguarding or Designated officer does at least a 3 hour Safeguarding Children in Sport course. This can be done with the NSPCC or UK Coaching, online or in person. If you’re an adult club, the person responsible for safeguarding should look at Safeguarding Adults workshops offered by UK Coaching and Ann Craft Trust.
If you have any questions please contact admin@ukultimate.com