The following documents will help your club, class or centre become TUSLA and Sport Ireland Safeguarding Compliant.

For full details on the importance of Safeguarding standards head back to our safeguarding page for some advice from Ciaran Murphy www.sailing.ie/safeguarding

To help you write your own statement following link is the Irish Sailing Safeguarding Statement as a word document.  You can download this and adapt to your own organisation name and circumstance. e.g. Remove Irish Sailing, replace with Jo Bloggs Sailing Club, keep the sections that are relevant to your activities and locations etc

Irish Sailing Safeguarding Statement March 2022 HERE

You may be interested in join teh "Don't Scroll By" campaign for Zero Tolerance to Hate Speach #DeleteBanReport see the booklet HERE

The following documents will help you to fulfill the requirements of your Safeguarding Statement (SEE ABOVE).

1. Sport Ireland - Safeguarding Guidance for Children and Young People in Sport - PDF
2. Children First Act 2015 - PDF
3. Children First - National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children - PDF
4. Training Policy 2019 - PDF
5. Safeguarding and Wellbeing Advisory from Sport Ireland - PDF
   
   Documents 6 through to 26 are the Irish Sailing policy documents. In order to full fill the requirements in your own Safeguarding Statement, you can take the relevant documents below and adapt to your own organisation name and circumstance. e.g. Remove Irish Sailing, replace with Jo Bloggs Sailing Club, change locations and situations etc.
    
6. Irish Sailing Safeguarding Policy 2020 - word doc download
7. Garda Vetting Policy - word doc download
8. Safeguarding Training Plan 2021 - word doc download
9. Supervision Policy Jan 2020 - word doc download
10. Social Media Policy Jan 2020 - word doc download
11. Photography & Images Policy 2020 - word doc download
12. WhatsApp Guidance - word doc download
13. Accident Incident Report Template - word doc download
14. TUSLA Child Protection and Welfare Report Form - word doc download
15. Coach Education Policy Document - PDF
16. Training Guide for Club Courses - PDF
17. Disciplinary, Complaints & Appeals Procedure Jan 2020 - word doc download
18. Physical Contact Policy Jan 2020 - word doc download
19. Recruitment Policy Jan 2020 - word doc download
20. Concussion Protocol for Sailing Coaches - word doc download
21. Disability Inclusion Policy Jan 2020 - word doc download
22. Child Officer Poster - word doc download
23. Instructor Induction Training Resource - word doc download
24. Codes of Conduct Jan 2020 - word doc download
25. Instructor & Coach Charter Jan 2020 - word document
26. Anti Bullying Policy Jan 2020 - word doc download
     
27. Irish Sailing's Guide to Safe Use of eSailing Virtual Regatta Apr 2020 - pdf

Further advice is available from Ciaran Murphy on ciaran.murphy@sailing.ie.

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