Policies and Welfare

Saltwood Cricket Club (SCC) is committed to the highest standards of care, supervision and behaviour throughout the club. SCC has developed the following club policies to ensure the welfare and enjoyment of everyone attending the club. Members and guests are encouraged to familiarise themselves with these policies and to immediately raise any concerns with any member of the club committee.

Code of Conduct

Saltwood Cricket Club is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all its members. SCC believes that it is important that members, coaches, administrators and parents, carers or guardians associated with the club should, at all times, show respect and understanding for the safety and welfare of others.

Therefore, members are encouraged to be open at all times and to share any concerns or complaints that they may have about any aspect of the club with insert name of person and position within cricket club.

As a member of Saltwood Cricket Club you are expected to abide by the following code of conduct:

• All members must play within the rules and respect officials and their decisions.
• All members must respect the rights, dignity and worth of all participants regardless of gender, ability, cultural background or religion.
• Members should keep to agreed timings for training and competitions or inform their coach or team manager if they are going to be late.
• Members must wear suitable kit – insert list of compulsory items – for training and match sessions, as agreed with the coach/team manager.
• Members must pay any fees for training or events promptly.
• Junior members are not allowed to smoke on club premises or whilst representing the club at competitions.
• Junior members are not allowed to consume alcohol or drugs of any kind on the club premises or whilst representing the club.

Safeguarding Policy Statement

Saltwood Cricket Club (SCC) is committed to ensuring all Children (i.e all persons under the age of 18 ) participating in cricket have a safe and positive experience.
We will do this by:
• Recognising all children participating in cricket (regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, ability or disability) have the right to have fun and be protected from harm in a safe environment
• Ensuring individuals working within cricketat, or for, our club provide a welcoming, safe, and fun experience for children
• Adopting and implementing the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) “SafeHands – Cricket’s Policy for Safeguarding Children” and any future versions of this
• Appointing a Club Welfare Officer and ensuring they attend all current and future training modules required by the ECB,
• Ensuring all people who work in cricket at, or for, our club (such as staff, officials, volunteers, team managers, coaches and so on) have a responsibility for safeguarding children, and understand how the “Safe Hands Policy” applies to them
• Ensuring all individuals working within cricket at, or for, the club are recruited and appointed in accordance with ECB guidelines and relevant legislation
• Ensuring all individuals working within cricket at, or for, the club are providedwith support, through education and training, so they are aware of, and can adhere to, good practice and Code of Conduct guidelines defined by the ECB, and the club
• Ensuring the name and contact details of the Club Welfare Officer is available: – As the first point of contact for parents, children and volunteers/staff within the club
– As a local source of procedural advice for the club, its committee and members
– As the main point of contact within the club for the ECB County Welfare Officer and the ECB Safeguarding Team, and
– As the main point of contact within the club for relevant external agencies in connection with child safeguarding Ensuring correct and comprehensive reporting procedures exist for raising and managing child safeguarding concerns.
• Providing an environment where the views of children, parents and volunteers are sought and welcomed on a range of issues. This will help us create an environment where people have the opportunity to voice any concerns (about possible suspected child abuse/neglect, and/or about poor practice) to the ClubWelfare Officer *
*Details of the County Welfare Officer will be made available, in case the Club Welfare officer is unavailable, or the concern relates to the Club Welfare officer.
• Ensuring all suspicions concerns and allegations are taken seriously and dealt with swiftly and appropriately
• Ensuring access to confidential information relating to child safeguarding matters is restricted to those who need to know in order to safeguard children – including the Club Welfare Officer and the appropriate external authorities, such as the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO), as specified within ECB child safeguarding procedures

Photography, Filming and Social media broadcast Guidelines

Parents will not be prevented from taking pictures of, or filming, their children. These are normal family practices and help mark milestones in a child’s life. Similarly, Saltwood Cricket Club (SCC) is keen to record the achievements of its members, including young players, and from time to time use images of our cricket on our website and other media, subject to the policy below

• Photographs/images are not to be taken at matches or training without the prior permission of the parents/carers of the child. This permission can be given by proxy by the coach of each team only after parental consent for this has been granted. The coach must arrange this prior to attending matches
• If no consent has been given for a child on the player profile form, then it is to be made known to the relevant person of the other team (e.g. coach/team manager) so the appropriate person/s taking photographs for the other team is/are aware and can avoid taking photographs of that particular child
• The children should be informed a person will be taking photographs
– The children should be informed that if they have concerns they can report these to the coach or team manager
• Concerns regarding inappropriate, or intrusive, photography should be reported to the Club Welfare Officer and recorded in the same manner as any other child protection or safeguarding concern

• SCC will ask for parental permission to use the child’s image and, wherever possible, show the image to the parents and child in advance. This ensures that they are aware of the way the image will be used to represent cricket and the club
• SCC will ask for the child’s permission to use their image. This ensures they are aware of the way the image is to be used to represent cricket and the club
• If the cricketer is named, their photograph will not be used
• If a photograph is used, the childs name wil not be used
• SCC will only use images of children in appropriate kit (training or competition), to reduce the risk of inappropriate use, and to provide positive images of the children
• Encourage the reporting of inappropriate use of images of children. If you are concerned, report your concerns to the County or Club Welfare Officer

Inclusion & Diversity Policy

Saltwood Cricket Club (SCC) is fully committed to the principles of equality of opportunity in cricket, and to ensuring that its employees, members and all other individuals working or volunteering for the club, and participating in or watching SCC’s activities are treated fairly and are able to conduct their activities free from discrimination, harassment or intimidation.

•SCC in all its activities will not discriminate, or in any way treat anyone less favourably against on the grounds of age, gender, disability, race, parental or marital status, pregnancy, religion or belief or sexual orientation.
•SCC will not tolerate harassment, bullying, abuse or victimisation of individuals
•SCC will endeavour to create access and opportunities for all those individuals who wish to participate, and are lawfully eligible to participate, in its activities.
•SCC will ensure that it complies with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 and shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that its employees, members and volunteers adhere to these requirements and this policy.
SCC is committed to the investigation of any claims when brought to its attention, of discrimination, harassment, bullying, abuse or victimisation of an individual, and reserves the right to impose such sanction as it considers appropriate and proportionate, where such is found to be the case.

• In the event that any employee, member, volunteer, participant or spectator feels that they have suffered discrimination, harassment, bullying, abuse or victimisation, they should report the matter in writing to the club’s Chairman or Welfare Office.
• Any such report should include: details of what occurred; when and where the occurrence took place; any witness details and copies of any witness statements.
• On receipt of the report, the Chairman and Welface Officer:
– may decide (at its sole discretion) to uphold or dismiss the complaint without holding a hearing;
– may (at its sole discretion) hold a hearing at which both parties will be entitled to attend and present their case;
– will have the power to impose any one or more of the following sanctions on any person found to be in breach of any policy: (a) warn as to future conduct; (b) suspend from membership; (c) remove from membership; (d) exclude a non-member from the facility, either temporarily or permanently; and (e) turn down a non-member’s current and/or future membership application; and
– will provide both parties with written reasons for its decision.
• A party may appeal a decision of the Chairman or Welface Officer to the relevant County Cricket Board by writing to the relevant County Cricket Board within 3 months of SCC’s decision being notified to that party.
• If the nature of the complaint is with regard to the Chairman or Welface Officer, the complainant may report the complaint directly to the relevant County Cricket Board.

Privacy Policy

Under new laws coming into effect in May 2018, we need to provide you with certain details concerning how your personal data will be used and protected.

These policies are fully supported by SCC’s officers and committee who are responsible for the implementation of this policy.
This policy will be reviewed periodically by SCC in consultation with the England and Wales Cricket Board Limited.