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EBF/EWBF Safeguarding Statement
The English Bowling Federation/English Women’s Bowling Federation fully accepts its legal and moral obligation to exercise its duty of care and to protect all children and vulnerable adults participating in its activities and to safeguard their welfare. To this end we are members of and subscribe to The Joint Panel for the Protection of Children & Vulnerable Adults of all Bowling Codes
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We are committed to do this by acknowledging that:
- the welfare of the individual is paramount;
- each individual irrespective of age, gender, religion, race or disability has the right to protection from abuse;
- each individual has a right to be safe, and to be treated with respect and dignity
We shall use our best endeavours to ensure that:
- all allegations of abuse are taken seriously;
- the response to them is swift and appropriate;
- the effectiveness of our policy is reviewed regularly;
- a responsible person shall be appointed as Safeguarding Officer to whom members can address any concerns
Please find, at the bottom of this page, three 'attached' PDF documents,
which will download when clicked upon. These are:-
- The DBA Safeguarding Policy - Children
- The DBA Safeguarding Policy - Adults
- NACRO-making-safe-and-fair-decisions-about-membership(This deals with the subject of criminal records)
Update 28July'23: a single document was replaced by seperate PDFs for Children & Adults
Further information and useful templates are available at:
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Please contact the EBF Safeguarding Officer for further guidance.
The documents below are for your use:
Duty of Care
Duties of Club Welfare Officer
Photographs/filming guidelines
and Related forms
Risk Assessment Forms
Please note: this link has been removed
whilst we consider where to move it to.
It was not directly about safegaurding.
To open any of the above documents in a new window, click on the link (underlined text).