Child and Young People Safety at Le Page Park Cricket Club
Children are the heart of our club, and they have the right to feel safe, have a voice in decisions affecting them and feel empowered to speak up if they feel uncomfortable.
We ensure volunteers have appropriate background checks and require people who interact with children to undertake online training to understand their role in creating a child safe environment.
Everyone involved at our club, including coaches, umpires, team managers, captains, Blast Coordinators, committee members, parents/guardians must always act in accordance with Australian Cricket’s Looking After Our Kids Code of Behaviour when interacting with children and young people, by:
• Ensuring children feel safe, supported, included and encouraged;
• Establish a culturally safe environment in which the diverse and unique identities and experience of Aboriginal Children and Young people are respected;
• Never engaging in sexual misconduct or inappropriate physical contact;
• Providing positive guidance and acting within the scope of their role;
• Never using language that is harmful, discriminatory, racist, sexist, homophobic, biphobic or transphobic;
• Avoiding one-to-one unsupervised situations, including avoiding transporting children without explicit parent/guardian and club consent;
• Restricting communication with children and young people to issues directly related to the club and never communicating online with children without including you as the parent/guardian;
• Never supplying children with alcohol or drugs; and
• Always obtaining parent/guardian consent for photographs, footage or livestreaming involving children.
Le Page Park Cricket Club takes Child Safety very seriously, and are fully supportive of Cricket Australia's Child Safety Guidelines.
Below are links to the relevant documents:
Cricket Victoria Child Safe and Member Protection - for up-to-date information
Australian Cricket’s Commitment to Safeguarding Children and Young People
11 Victorian Child Safe Standards
LPPCC Committee Meeting Endorsement
LPPCC Endorsed copy of Australian Cricket’s Looking After our Kids Code of Behaviour
WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECK & PLAY BY THE RULES CHILD PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS
It is a requirement for all Le Page Park Cricket Club Committee Members, Sub-Committee Members, Junior and Senior Coaches, Junior and Senior Team Managers and Senior Captains to have a current Working with Children Check and have completed the Play by the Rules Child Protection Course.
TRANSPORTING CHILDREN
Le Page Park Cricket Club acknowledges that from time to time there are valid reasons for transporting Children and Young People. If such arrangements are in place where players are being transported by other players’ parents or guardians or other means of transport (eg. Taxi), the Le Page Park Cricket Club seeks Parent/Guardian approval and consent via a completed Transportation Permission Form.
Le Page Park Cricket Club would like to acknowledge the Bunurong people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet, train and play the great game of cricket and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.
Le Page Park Cricket Club (LPPCC) is committed to providing a safe, supportive and welcoming environment for players, coaches, officials, spectators and members of the public associated with Le Page Park Cricket Club. LPPCC recognise and respect all sexualities, gender identities and sexes and believe that everyone has the right to participate in a safe, respectful and welcoming environment.
Should you have any queries, please contact our Child Safety Officer, Narelle Partridge on 0418507482