I tend to agree that having your name and photo in a publication is low risk. I have heard of a few cases where being published leads to unwanted attention - happens to adults too - but I cannot imagine it is very common.
Incidents of child abuse per 1,000 of the population? - who knows. We only know what is reported. In any large secondary school it would be a rare month when there was not a referral to social services about suspected abuse, whether physical, emotional or sexual. In some schools where I have worked it would be a rare week. Investigation of virtually all those cases shows damaging problems, though very few indeed are anything like the media view of "paedophilia. There is a lot of abuse around. Children do need protecting.
The uncomfortable part of the story is that virtually all abuse (and other violence towards others like murder, rape etc.) happens within the family or with people well known to the victim (e.g. family friends). The "predatory paedophile" (like the serial killer) exists and needs stopping, but thankfully is extremely rare.
Any good child protection policy will deal with what happens to react properly when a child reveals something, as well as simply trying to make sure that the the club is not a place where abuse might occur. It is quite common for children to reveal something nasty to someone who is not involved in their situation and who they regard as sensible and neutral - which could easily be a club coach or simply friendly adult or older junior member.
I would agree with others that a child protection policy is essential - but it must be meaningful to club members: people must say "yes, that makes sense" because then they will remember it, support it and take the right action if they ever need to. Even if you have a good model policy, you have to adapt it to your own circumstances.
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As i've said many times and in many different places - the key to good child protection is with the children - not the adults - making children invisible is not a valid strategy - helping children to understand what is and is not acceptable behaviour and what to do if they receive any of the latter is a valid strategy and far more likely to protect children in the short and long term as it will result in paedophile's get shopped by streetwise kids
Gareth - i'd like to see the kiddy fiddler's face when you turn up at the meeting place! awk - you must know it's my birthday in a fortnight - what other explanation can there be for you and i agreeing on something!
Gareth - i'd like to see the kiddy fiddler's face when you turn up at the meeting place! awk - you must know it's my birthday in a fortnight - what other explanation can there be for you and i agreeing on something!
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I agree. Kids knowing what is acceptable and not and what to do about it is the key. The fact that most abuse is in the family makes this hard through - when you are seven and the problem is your Dad it can be pretty difficult even to tell someone else - hence the importance of things like childline and people in such things as clubs taking it seriously when they are told something.
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Chris, you're going off on a different line now. We are not talking about child abuse by family members.
Doesn't a lot of this simply come down to each individuals preference for whether their kids photo with or without name is allowed to be published?
My local press - which is distributed far more widely than any club magazine, in terms of numbers, weekly publishes pictures and praises our young athletes in all sorts of different sports.
Yes, the world has gone F... mad. Isn't it time sensible people started taking back control of the asylum.
Doesn't a lot of this simply come down to each individuals preference for whether their kids photo with or without name is allowed to be published?
My local press - which is distributed far more widely than any club magazine, in terms of numbers, weekly publishes pictures and praises our young athletes in all sorts of different sports.
Yes, the world has gone F... mad. Isn't it time sensible people started taking back control of the asylum.
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Quite so - my local paper won't do the Christmas play pics unless they can use the names of the children - and who would bother looking at them unless they were interested in whether they knew them. Rugby has been held up as a sport which has embraced child protection to the letter and what do I see on Midlands Today recently - ten year old Sophie so and so of Ledbury rugby club and 12 year old whatsit talking about how great it is - rugby is just air kissing the guide lines as and when it suits them. No-one - not the government nor BOF nor anyone else - has the interests of my children more at heart than I do - and I highly resent the implication that I am not the best person to protect them in the best way i see fit (which happens to be equipping them to protect themselves - not wrapping them in cotton wool) rant over.
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