CHILD PROTECTION
The protection of children in
Tennis has been and remains a priority of the highest order to Ulster
Branch Tennis Ireland.
Ongoing improvements in the vetting process for those working with
children and vulnerable adults has resulted in a specialised body known
as AccessNI now being responsible for the processing of all
vetting applications in Northern Ireland.
For several years now, Ulster Branch Tennis Ireland has taken a pro-active role in working with affiliated clubs and other associated bodies to ensure the highest level of compliance within our sport in terms of Code of Ethics and Good Practice for Children's Sport. As umbrella organisation for all affiliated tennis clubs in Ulster, UBTI are keen to continue working with clubs to ensure that policies and procedures put in place for the protection of children and vulnerable adults are actively maintained.
We have put together a step by step guide for recruitment and vetting and this section outlines the relevant forms, identity checks and AccessNI forms to be completed. Please see Fact Sheet 14 below.
The current Ulster Branch Tennis Ireland Children's Officer is Valerie Rowan, UBTI, House of Sport, Belfast (tel. 07803 187256).
Safeguarding
Children Child Protection Resources
A series of fact sheets to support the implementation of a Club Child
Protection Strategy have been developed from materials
originally
produced by
Roger Geraghty and Seamus McCusker.
N.B. Before opening the Fact Sheets it is necessary to download the Club Child Protection Strategy
The
files below are all PDF files and can be viewed using the free Adobe
PDF Reader. Where possible the files are also provided in MS Word
format. To download the files in Word format please click on the Word
logo (
).