Workshop on Child Welfare and Related
Issues
At 8:30pm, on Thursday next, April 28th, a workshop
session will be held by Dr Aisling Parkes,
covering diverse child welfare and vulnerable adult related topics, as
outlined below.
Dr. Parkes is a member of
Togher AC. The briefing is open to Cork Athletics officers, and any
person who intends to officiate at the upcoming Cork Athletics T&F
Championships.
Dr Aisling Parkes
Dr Aisling Parkes, Lecturer in Law, Sports Law Clinic Director,
EBCL Programme Director, Law School Student Wellbeing
Officer, Law School Disability Liaison Officer, School of Law Author of
Children
and International Human Rights Law: The Right of the Child to be Heard
Workshop
Dr. Parkes expects to speak for approx. one hour, in an open forum
format session.
Workshop Topics
(not necessarily in this order)
- Photography, Video and Media
- Bullying and Cyberbullying
- Procedures - Equality
- Procedures - Disciplinary
- Voice of the Child
- UCC Sports Law Clinic
- Outline briefing on upcoming legislation, including
National Vetting Bureau Children and Vulnerable Persons Act
NB: This Workshop is
NOT intended to cover specific cases/incidents, therefore any question
that may fall into this category will be 'sidelined'
Athletics Ireland Statement on National Vetting
Bureau Children and Vulnerable Persons Act
To facilitate the transition to the new
vetting system and to implement the requirements of the vetting
legislation, no vetting applications will be accepted or processed by
the Garda Central Vetting Unit from April 18th
to 28th.
In preparation for this transfer to the
new vetting system, Athletics Ireland will only process vetting forms
received by Friday the 8th
of April. The current Athletics Ireland vetting form expired on that
day. The new Garda vetting form will be made available to clubs by
Athletics Ireland prior to the commencement of the vetting legislation
on April 29th.
The National Vetting Bureau (Children and
Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 makes vetting mandatory for anyone
volunteering or seeking employment relating to children or vulnerable
persons. Anybody who is involved in ‘any work or activity which is
carried out by a person, a necessary and regular part of which consists
mainly of the person having access to, or contact with children’ must
be vetted.
It will be an offence for a club or
organisation to employ someone to work with children or vulnerable
persons without completing the vetting procedures set out in the Act.
Liability rests with the club or organisation not the employee.
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