Time To Listen (Online Classroom)

Tuesday 11th March 2025, 6-9pm

Welsh Gymnastics is dedicated to keeping all our members safe. As part of this commitment, we require everyone in an official role to hold a valid safeguarding certificate. To make this more accessible, we are offering our Safeguarding and Protecting Children course, as well as the Time to Listen course, free of charge to all members. In doing this we hope that this will relieve some of the pressure off clubs and help keep our sport safe for all.

Notes:

• Any no shows will be charged full course price of £35
• Your place is not confirmed until you complete your entry

Pre-Requisites:

• Before completing this course, you must have a current Safeguarding and Protecting Children (SPC) award.
• You must be at least 18 years old on the day of the course.

This workshop will give you an essential understanding of what is required of welfare officers that are responsible for managing and reporting concerns about children, and for putting into place procedures to safeguard children, ensuring that you have the practical knowledge required to take a child-focused approach and excel in the role.

You will also learn about the importance of building relationships and trust with the key people that you’ll be working with, essential to working with colleagues to safeguard children effectively.

Through interactive scenarios featuring people from different sports and activities, you will also practise your decision-making in a safe and supportive environment, enabling you to explore some possible consequences of your decisions. This will help to prepare you to act in similar scenarios as a welfare officer, giving you crucial confidence in your ability to act in each child’s best interest.

This course is for those that wish to support their club by becoming a Welfare Officer. Head coaches may attend the course for information purposes but are not allowed to be a Welfare Officer.