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7. Safeguarding Best Practice


Safeguarding Best Practice

10. Finchley RFC will ensure that all coaches, volunteers, and officials comply with the Safeguarding Best Practice Guidance as issued by the RFU. In summary, the following are NOT acceptable and will be treated seriously by the club and may result in disciplinary action being taken by the club, Middlesex RFU or the RFU:
a. Working alone with a children or young people
b. Consuming alcohol or smoking whilst working with children or young people
c. Failing to comply with the Club’s guidelines on phone, email, messaging, internet and online contact with children or young people given in Appendix B
d. Providing alcohol to children or young people or allowing its supply
e. Humiliating children or young people
f. Inappropriate or unnecessary physical contact with a child, young person or vulnerable adult
g. Participating in, or allowing, contact or physical games between adults and children or young people
h. Having an intimate or sexual relationship with any child, young person or vulnerable adult developed as a result of being in a “position of trust"
I. Making sexually explicit comments or sharing sexually explicit material.