Club Rules
Blue Jays netball club is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the well being of all its members.
The club believes that it is important that members, coaches, administrators and parents associated with the club, should at all times show respect and understanding for the safety and welfare of others.
Therefore members are encouraged to be open at all times and to share any concerns or complaints that they may have about any aspect of the club with the head coach.
As members of Blue Jays you are expected to abide by the following club rules:
Code of Conduct for Young Players (U18)
Remember keeping safe is the important thing. You can break normal rules in order to stay safe.
Codes of Conduct for Coaches, Officials and Volunteers
As a coach, official or volunteer of Blue Jays Netball Club I will try to work within the following guidelines:
Code of Conduct for Parents, Carers and Guardians
As a parent, carer and supporter of Blue Jays Netball Club, try to work within the following guidelines:
Safeguarding:
All mobiles must be switched off during training sessions and matches. Not all children, parents or carers agree to having their photograph taken.
Remember:
A stranger is someone you do not know. You must never go anywhere with anyone you don’t know. You must always ask your parents/guardian if it is OK to go
Other people (even relations) are not always good. They can hurt, bully and upset young people, so you must be very careful. Good adults do not ask young people to keep secrets. You must tell.
If you tell your parents/guardian or coach that you are going somewhere, with someone, you should always go there. If you change your mind you should let them know before you go.
The club believes that it is important that members, coaches, administrators and parents associated with the club, should at all times show respect and understanding for the safety and welfare of others.
Therefore members are encouraged to be open at all times and to share any concerns or complaints that they may have about any aspect of the club with the head coach.
As members of Blue Jays you are expected to abide by the following club rules:
- All members must play within the rules and respect officials and their decisions
- All members must respect opponents.
- Members should keep to agreed timings for training and competitions or inform their coach or team captain if they are going to be late.
- Members should wear suitable kit for training and match sessions. As agreed with the coach/team captain.
- Members must pay any fees for training or events promptly.
Code of Conduct for Young Players (U18)
- Do not rumble the thunder
- Treat teammates, coaches, umpires and opponents with respect.
- Have fun, reach for the top and always try your best.
- Umpires are there to interpret the rules for you, accept their decisions.
- Never use bad language or insult opponents, coaches or spectators.
- Do not try to gain an unfair advantage over opponents.
- Enjoy yourself; know the rules of netball and play by the spirit of the rules.
- Realise that without your opponents; there wouldn’t be a game.
- If anyone does anything you don’t like, you must tell an adult that you can trust, if they don’t believe you, you must tell another until you are believed.
- If you see a friend getting into a car or going off with a stranger, you must not go near enough for them to get you, but you should shout and tell them not to go, and then go and tell an adult.
- Shout and run away if someone frightens you or follows you. Go towards places where there are people, or knock on someone’s door and ask for help.
Remember keeping safe is the important thing. You can break normal rules in order to stay safe.
Codes of Conduct for Coaches, Officials and Volunteers
As a coach, official or volunteer of Blue Jays Netball Club I will try to work within the following guidelines:
- Always ensure that I am never left alone with one child. Avoid situations where an individual child (that is not my own) and myself are completely unobserved.
- If any form of physical support is required, it will be provided openly and according to guidelines provided by England Netball.
- Where possible, parents/guardians will take on the responsibility for their young people in the changing rooms. If young people have to be supervised in the changing rooms, the club will try to ensure that coaches/volunteers work in pairs.
- Encourage an open environment (i.e. no secrets, always explain why you are doing something in that way, encourage a diplomatic approach to the club’s activities with young people being able to put their views forward).
- When working with the teams, the club will agree with parents/guardians when it is appropriate to enter the changing area.
- As a coach, official or volunteer of Blue Jays Netball Club I will avoid:
- Spending excessive amounts of time alone with young people away from others.
- Taking young people (apart from own relations) alone on car journeys, however short.
- Taking young people (apart from own relations) to my home where they will be alone with me.
- As a coach, official or volunteer of Blue Jays Netball Club I will never;
- Engage in rough, physical or sexually provocative games, including horseplay.
- Share a room with a young person (apart from own relations).
- Allow or engage in any form of inappropriate touching.
- Allow young people to use in appropriate language unchallenged.
- Make sexually suggestive comments to young person, even in fun.
- Do things of a personal nature for young people that they can do for themselves.
- Invite or allow young people (apart from own relations) to stay with me at my home unsupervised.
- Allow allegations to be made by a child to go unchallenged, un recorded or not acted upon
Code of Conduct for Parents, Carers and Guardians
As a parent, carer and supporter of Blue Jays Netball Club, try to work within the following guidelines:
- Remember children are involved in netball for their enjoyment not yours.
- Encourage your children to play to the rules and not to argue with umpires or other officials.
- Teach your child that honest effort is more important than victory so that the result of each game is accepted without undue disappointment.
- Turn losing into winning by helping your child work towards skill improvement and good sportsmanship.
- Remember that children learn best by example. Applaud good play by your team and by members of the opposition
- Do not question the umpire’s decisions or honesty. Remember he/she is only human with the same feelings as you; can sometimes make an honest error.
- Recognise the importance and value of coaches who are all volunteers. They give children their time and resources to provide netball for your child.
- Read the rules of netball to understand better what you are watching and commenting on.
- Promote this code of conduct to other parents, carers and supporters.
- A child’s safety and well-being are the responsibility of the parent, carer or guardian, therefore your child should be dropped off and collected from the courts whether at training or a tournament to ensure that each child leaves safely with a known person and not stood isolated away from others.
Safeguarding:
All mobiles must be switched off during training sessions and matches. Not all children, parents or carers agree to having their photograph taken.
Remember:
A stranger is someone you do not know. You must never go anywhere with anyone you don’t know. You must always ask your parents/guardian if it is OK to go
Other people (even relations) are not always good. They can hurt, bully and upset young people, so you must be very careful. Good adults do not ask young people to keep secrets. You must tell.
If you tell your parents/guardian or coach that you are going somewhere, with someone, you should always go there. If you change your mind you should let them know before you go.
