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Lilleshall Cricket Club is committed to ensuring everyone participating in cricket does so in a safe, friendly, secure and enjoyable environment. Everyone at the club, whether as a player, coach, official, administrator, staff member, volunteer, spectator, parent, or carer has a role to play. Individually and collectively, it is our actions both on and off the field which can help create a positive and inclusive environment.
We will do this by:

• Having the right people in place
• Creating the right culture and environment
• Ensuring clear processes are in place for reporting and responding to safeguarding concerns
• Adopting the ECB's Safe Hands Policy and Guidance

We encourage everyone involved with the club to undertake the ECB's Introduction to Safeguarding online course access here: England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) - The Official Website of the ECB. Officials at the club undertake further safeguarding training depending on their role.

How to Share a Safeguarding Concern
The following contacts can be used to report a safeguarding concern. To email them please see contact page of website and select their name.
• Club Safeguarding Officer Richard Harris
• Club Safeguarding Officer Louise Marshall

If there is an emergency or someone is at immediate risk, then please call
the Police,
Children's Social Care for the Telford and Wrekin Area 01952 385385 (option 1) / 01952 676500 (out of hours),
or the the NSPCC 24-hour helpline 0808 800 5000.
Those responding to the safeguarding concern will ensure they are appropriately handled ensuring confidentiality and information is passed onto the appropriate people.

Club Safeguarding Officers

Our club safeguarding officers are Richard Harris and Louise Marshall who have undergone specialist Safe Hands training provided by the ECB.
Roles of club safeguarding officers:

• The first point of contact for all children, parents/carers, volunteers and members of the club. They also encourage the views of children and parents to be sought and acted upon.
• Ensuring that everyone who is working with children at the Club is subject to appropriate safer recruitment processes.
• Sit on the club committee and attend club committee meetings ensuring safeguarding is a standing item on the agenda.
• Promoters and a source of advice of safeguarding best practice for the club, the committee and all members
• The club's main point of contact for the County Safeguarding Officer, the Cricket Regulator Safeguarding Team and other external safeguarding agencies
• Ensuring the correct and comprehensive reporting procedures exist for raising and managing safeguarding concerns.

Richard Harris, Club Safeguarding Officer - Please see contact page to Email Richard

Louise Marshall, Club Safeguarding Officer - Please see contact page to Email Louise