Course 6 of 6
Leading a Safe Club.
Run a place where athletes are safe: the Safeguarding Officer, safer recruitment, policy and escalation map, events and hostels, handling concerns, and learning from failure.
Head coaches, academy owners and Safeguarding Officers · 10 modules · About 3½ hours · Lessons in your language · 4 weeks to finish · ₹999 · certificate valid 12 months
Open to every coach. Courses can be taken in any order.
The 10 modules.
What you will be able to do after each one.
What a safe club looks like
- Explain the difference between safeguarding every child and protecting a child at risk
- Name the eight international safeguards and what each asks of your club
- Check your own facility against the six domains of the Safety in Sport standard
- Tell the difference between a club that has a policy and a club that lives it
The Safeguarding Officer
- Describe what a Safeguarding Officer does, and what they do not do
- Choose and support the right person for the role, with a female contact where girls train
- Explain why the police report never waits for the Safeguarding Officer or the owner
- Name the alternative route when there is no Safeguarding Officer, or the concern is about them
Safer recruitment and screening
- Run every step of safer recruitment, from role description to probation
- Ask interview and reference questions that bring safeguarding concerns to light
- Explain what police verification can and cannot tell you
- Decide which checks volunteers, drivers and parent-coaches need
Your safeguarding policy and escalation map
- List what a safeguarding policy and its procedures should contain
- Display your code of conduct so children, parents and staff can use it
- Build an escalation map with local names and numbers for every kind of concern
- Keep the policy alive through induction, practice and yearly review
Planning events, trips and tournaments
- Carry out a simple risk assessment for a trip, tournament or event
- Plan staffing, ratios, consent, medical needs and emergencies before you leave
- Set safe rules for transport, rooms and free time, using the overnight stays checklist
- Plan safeguarding for a tournament or big event your club hosts
Running a residential hostel
- Staff a hostel with the right wardens, including a woman warden for girls who is not the coach
- Set up night rosters, room checks, visitor logs and privacy rules
- Give residents a private complaint route and keep them connected to their families
- Recognise ragging and other warning signs in hostel life, and act on them
Handling a concern from start to finish
- Sort any concern into Level 1, 2 or 3 and keep to the timelines for each
- Put interim protection in place without waiting for an outcome
- Keep records that are factual, confidential and useful
- Run a fair process for the adult concerned and stop retaliation against anyone who reports
Parents and athlete voice
- Explain your club's safeguarding rules to parents and welcome their questions
- Set out parents' rights and a parent code of conduct
- Set up an athlete committee and other safe ways for athletes to be heard
- Teach children their rights without making them responsible for their own protection
Learning from failure
- Describe how institutions failed in well-known cases, and why
- Spot the warning signs of an unsafe culture in your own club
- Stop the patterns of protecting stars, handling cases internally and moving problems on
- Build a speak-up culture and learn from every case
Putting it together
- Connect every part of the course into one picture of a safe club
- Choose the right action in mixed situations a club leader really faces
- Explain your decisions clearly, in your own words, to staff, parents and the authorities
How a module works.
Every module has the same two steps. Finish all 10 and the certificate is yours.
Watch
Short narrated lessons in your language, about ten minutes. Pause anytime and pick it up later.
Test
A multiple-choice test. Score 80% to pass. Miss it? Review and try again.
The certificate
Earned, dated and checkable.
Complete every module and My Drona issues your Leading a Safe Club certificate. It carries a unique number and a QR code that opens a public page anyone can check, with no account.
It is valid for 12 months and appears on your Digital Coach Passport with the date you earned it.
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