Wellbeing and Protection Resources

Scottish Cycling attempts to provide a comprehensive lists of useful documents to help to manage your clubs Wellbeing and Protection policies and protocols.

Please get in touch with the Scottish Cycling Wellbeing and Protection team if you have any difficulties with the documents, or if you would like to see an addition to the list.

You can get in touch via phone or email:

Tel: Lead Safeguarding Officer, James Bracher: 07908672652

Email: wpo@scottishcycling.org.uk

Further information on the Standards for Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport, and a club assessment tool can be found on the Children 1st Website.

Policies

Anti-Bullying Policy

Wellbeing and Protection Policy

Making a Referral Policy

Secure Data Handling Policy

Wellbeing and Protection Policy Appendices

Appendix 1 - Club Wellbeing and Protection Policy

Appendix 2 - Club Wellbeing and Protection Officer Role Description

Appendix 3 - Safe Recruitment Guidance

Appendix 3a - Recruiting People with Convictions

Appendix 3b - Barred and Under Consideration Guidance

Appendix 4 - Adult to Child Ratios

Appendix 5 - Physical Contact, First Aid, lone or 1 to 1 working

Appendix 6 - Behaviour Management guidance for coaches and volunteers

Appendix 7 - Changing Room Management

Appendix 8 - Management of late or non collection of children

Appendix 9 -Transporting Children

Appendix 10 -Trips away, overnight and accomodation

Appendix 11 - Social Media, Photo and Filming Guidance

Appendix 11a - Template Event Photography Policy

Appendix 12 - Guidance on working with U18 volunteers

Appendix 13 - Adapting Complaints and Disciplinary Procedures for U18s

Appendix 14a - Code of Conduct for Coaches

Appendix 14b - Code of Conduct for Parents and Carers

Appendix 14c - Code of Conduct for Athletes

Appendix 14d - Code of Conduct for Volunteers

Appendix 14e - Code of Conduct for Spectators

Sample and editable Codes of Conducts for clubs to utilise and adopt can be found on our Minimum Operating Standards page here

Responding to and Reporting a Concern

The responding to and reporting of concerns is covered in the main Wellbeing and Protection Policy and aslo here, however there are several documents and flow charts which can be used as quick references.

Appendix 15 - Poor Practice

Appendix 16 - SHANARRI 8 Wellbeing Indicators

Appendix 17 - Identifing different types of child abuse

Appendix 18 - Concern Recording Form

Flow Charts

Responding to a Concern 

Safeguarding at Events

Any sporting event should provide participants, volunteers and spectators with an opportunity to enjoy themselves, have fun and make great memories in a safe and positive environment. For find out more on the standards that are in place for cycling events in Scotland, please click here. 

Safeguarding for Cluster Sessions

For guidance on safeguarding provision at Club Cluster Sessions, and Development Clusters, please click here. For an editable word version, please contact wpo@scottishcycling.org.uk. 

Children and Young People

We also have a guide for children and young people should they need further support or advice within the sport. This information can be accessed here.

Parents and Carers

We have put together some advice and guidance for parents and carers whose children are involved in the sport. This guidance covers what questions and checks should be made by parents/carers when getting involved in cycling so that they can understand the wellbeing & protection standards that are in place within club activity. Please click here for more information.

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