Safeguarding and Club Policies

The LTA provide us with guidance and support in our roles and responsibilities. They provide us with county and regional safeguarding officers which we can turn to, if ever required. You will find an information board, in the clubhouse, with details on how to contact myself, Dorset Safeguarding team and the LTA if there was a need to raise a welfare concern. If a concern should come to me, I am to immediately contact the LTA safeguarding team and the matter will be handed over to them to investigate. I will always be kept abreast of information and outcomes, during concern proceedings.

We are keen that the club and parents work together to ensure that our young people and vulnerable adults are safe. LTA guidelines stipulate that all under 13 year olds are to be handed to, and collected from, the coaches for their coaching sessions. We are asking that children are not to be dropped off in the carpark and make their own way up to the courts. Also, children under the age of 13 are not permitted to play without adult supervision outside of their coaching sessions.