Child Protection Policy Statement.

SportsReporter.co.uk is fully committed to safeguarding the welfare of all children and young people. It recognises its responsibility to take all reasonable steps to promote safe practice and to protect children from harm, abuse and exploitation.

All staff and users will endeavour to work together to encourage the development of an ethos which embraces difference and diversity and respects the rights of children and young people. SportsReporter.co.uk as an organisation will:

• ensure that all workers understand their legal and moral obligations to protect children and young people from harm, abuse and exploitation;
• develop best practice in relation to the recruitment of all workers;
• ensure that all workers understand their responsibility to work to the standards and procedures detailed in the organisation's Code of Conduct, Code of Good Practice and the Child Protection Procedures;
• ensure that all workers understand their obligations to report care or protection concerns about a child/young person, or a worker's conduct towards a child/young person, to the organisation's designated person for child protection;
• ensure that all procedures relating to the conduct of workers are implemented in a consistent and equitable manner;
• ensure that the designated person understands his/her responsibility to refer any child protection concerns to the statutory child protection agencies (i.e. Police and/or Social Work);
• provide opportunities for all workers to develop their skills and knowledge particularly in relation to the care and protection of children and young people;
• ensure that children and young people are enabled to express their ideas and views on a wide range of issues and will have access to the organisation's Complaints Procedure;
• ensure that parents/carers are encouraged to be involved in the work of the organisation and, when requested, have access to all guidelines and procedures;
• endeavour to keep up-to-date with national developments relating to the care and protection of children and young people.

 

Third party links

In an attempt to provide you with increased benefits, we may include third party links on our site. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work).

A special note to parents

We want children to visit our site to utilise the banafits, and we therefore encourage children to consult with their parents before submitting any information to any website, including ours. We encourage parents to supervise their children's online activities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a kid-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from disclosing their name, address, and other personal information online without parental permission.

SportsReporter.co.uk expresses special care in relation to the privacy of children and has adopted special procedures and additional safeguards applicable to personal information collected from children.

 

Questions and feedback

We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please give us any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issue.