At Mellish we believe that everyone, including coaches, managers and parents should take responsibility for this sensitive issue, and this page is designed to help focus on the key issues involved.

Mellish maintains a clear policy in place on child safeguarding, which is kept under constant review. It is based on the RFU’s own policy of Child Safeguarding.

If you have a safeguarding concern please visit this page on the England Rugby website which explains the process in full here.

England Rugby process for Safeguarding is as follows:

• If the child whom you have concerns about is in immediate danger or needs medical attention, call 999 as soon as possible
• If you’re a parent or volunteer, you should share your concerns with your Club Safeguarding Officer. The Mellish RFC Safeguarding Officer is Dan Edson who can be contacted via 0711 341723 or daniel.r.edson@gmail.com.
• If you’re a Club Safeguarding Officer, you should share your concerns with your Constituent Body Safeguarding Manager.
• If neither of those options is available, you should contact the RFU Safeguarding team, via safeguarding@rfu.com as soon as possible.
• If you are ever unsure of who you need to contact, you can call the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000, which operates between 10:00 AM and 16:00 PM Monday to Friday.
• Or you can contact the unmanned RFU Safeguarding line on 0208 831 6655 and a member of the Safeguarding team will respond to you within 24 hours.