Safeguarding and welfare

Herne Hill Harriers takes the welfare of all its members extremely seriously. The Club has a responsibility to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults participating in athletics from harm, abuse and exploitation and to safeguard their wellbeing. This extends to developing and applying consistent and robust case management procedures to reported safeguarding concerns. 

Our club adopts UK and England Athletics’ Child and Adult Safeguarding Policies and Procedures, all of which can be found at the bottom of this page

Our Club Welfare Officer is Sarah Guest, who is supported by  Ian Black.

Welfare and Safeguarding contact details and procedures are outlined below and also in the HHH policy and procedures documents, as well as procedures for reporting any concerns you may have.

How to report a safeguarding concern
 
If you have a safeguarding concern, you should report or share your concern promptly.  
 
Your club welfare officer can be contacted in the first instance, and where appropriate concerns can also be sent to UK Athletics (UKA)  
  1. Email (or phone mobile number: 07950 840814 ) Sarah Guest, Club Welfare Officer, with your own notes: welfarehhh@gmail.com
  2. If you have a concern about a child or young person, you can submit the form at the bottom of this document Child-Safeguarding-Procedures.pdf to your Club Welfare Officer welfarehhh@gmail.com and/or the UKA Safeguarding Team safeguarding@uka.org.uk 

To summarise, and should you have any concerns about yourself or another club member:

Report you concern straight away, and where appropriate, to a club coach and/or family member, as well as the club welfare officer.

No concern is too small – don’t ever be too worried to raise a concern or question anything that doesn’t look or feel right.

The complete safeguarding policies and procedures and how they are implemented can be found below. We ask everyone to read them. 

We also ask that all our members, officials and officers agree to abide by the relevant codes of conduct. By joining our club and/or being involved as an athlete, coach, volunteer, officer or official you are agreeing to follow the Club’s policies and adhere to these codes of conduct