Safeguarding Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults

EMDP takes seriously it moral and legal responsibility to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults from abuse and their aim is to ensure that all participants are kept safe from harm and enjoy the positive benefits of all exercise, movement and dance related activities.

EMDP has achieved its preliminary level of the NSPCC standards for safeguarding and protecting children in sport and are committed to achieving their Foundation standard by 2011. Please feel free to download the EMDP Child Protection Policy and Procedures and for further information please contact Jade Moulden, National Delivery Officer.

NSPCC Educational Support Videos

The NSPCC has developed 15 educational videos that relate to a range of safeguarding and child protection situations and issues that commonly arise in sports and physical activity settings, and provide advice and guidance about how to respond to them.

These films will give you examples of what you and your club or organisation need to do to safeguard the children and young people you work with.

They feature both club and school settings, but the messages in them apply to everyone that works with children and young people in sport and physical activity.

To view these videos please follow this link to the NSPCC website.

Bullying

The Department for Children, Schools and Families have produced a guidance document on anti-bullying in Youth activities.

To download this document please click here.

The following links may provide further useful information on Safeguarding in Sport:
The Child Protection in Sport Unit - www.thecpsu.org.uk
The NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk
NSPCC Child Protection Helpline direct: 0808 800 5000
Childline – www.childline.org.uk
Kidscape – www.kidscape.org.uk

Equality

EMDP is committed to providing equitable guidance and governance to all our member organisations and to ensuring that all activities provided by member organisations are accessible and open to all. EMDP has achieved the Equality Standard for Sport foundation level and is committed to achieving the preliminary standard by 2011.

Please feel free to download the EMDP Equality Policy or the EMDP Accessibility Statement and for further information please contact Jade Moulden, National Delivery Officer.

The following links may provide further useful information on Equality in Sport:
Sporting Equals – www.sportingequals.com
The Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation – www.wsff.org.uk
Equality Standard for Sport – www.equalitystandard.org

Photography and Filming Policy and Procedures
Please click here to download EMDP Event Photography and Filming Guidelines, a comprehensive step-by-step support document to guide you through necessary photography and filming procedures.

Staffing Guidelines

Please click here to download Staffing Guildeines when working with children and young people

Code Of Ethics

Please click here to download the EMDP Code of Ethics