Suffolk Sport's Safeguarding Responsibilities

Suffolk Sport will:

Promote a consistent approach to safeguarding across the sports sector in Suffolk for the benefit of sports organisations, staff / volunteers, parents / carers and children / young people
Provide advice and guidance on safeguarding to partner organisations
Act as an advocate for good safeguarding practice, and promote the adoption of the guidance within this document, or similar, across the wider Partnership
Accept the moral and legal responsibility to implement procedures to provide a duty of care for young people, safeguard their wellbeing and protect them from abuse
Respect and promote the rights, wishes and feelings of children and young people
Recruit, train and supervise its employees and volunteers to adopt best practice to safeguard and protect young people from abuse and themselves against allegations
Require employees / volunteers to adopt and abide by this Safeguarding Policy and Good Practice Guidelines (at induction)
Respond to allegations appropriately and implement the appropriate disciplinary and appeals procedures
Ensure that its partnership, funding or commissioning criteria reference the requirement to address safeguarding within the relevant organisation(s)
Monitor and evaluate the policy every three years, in response to any changes in the role of the Partnership or in relevant legislation or following a significant incident.