We are committed as a Club to creating and maintaining a safe and positive environment for all people involved in hockey with the Club. You can read our commitment to safeguarding here.
The Club adopts England Hockey’s (EH’s) policy on Safeguarding and Protecting Young People in Hockey, its associated policies and procedures. These policies and associated procedures can be found at www.englandhockey.co.uk/safe.
We believe that all young people have the right to be safe and enjoy their hockey. We accept a responsibility to promote the welfare of young people and to protect them from harm, in partnership with The Hockey Family*.
We all have a responsibility to recognise poor practice and abuse. If you have a concern or need advice, don’t hesitate to contact our Club Welfare Officer – Lizzie Celi Parr on 07511 303530 or sohccwo@hotmail.com. She will listen carefully to what you have to say.
Lizzie’s contact details appear on the Safeguarding & Protecting Poster
We have a juniors’ Safeguarding page which provides advice.
Please see our Safeguarding & Protecting Poster
Check out this information to help you and others to stay safe.
We were re-awarded England Hockey’s Clubmark accreditation in May 2023. This demonstrates that we are a well organised Club that provides the right environment for all members to train and enjoy playing our sport.
We require volunteers in certain roles and appointments to commit to complete safeguarding training. This will be either a Sports Coach UK workshop, NSPCC or an England Hockey on-line course. On top, our Welfare Officer has completed a Time To Listen course.
Use this England Hockey form to report a safeguarding concern.
To support our commitment we have gathered together three important sources of safeguarding information from England Hockey:
Recognising poor practice and abuse
* HOCKEY FAMILY – The hockey family includes all individuals, clubs, associations and other organisations involved in any capacity in the game of hockey, whether members of England Hockey or not. For the avoidance of doubt, this includes all players and anyone working within hockey (in a paid or voluntary capacity, and whether as an employee or on a self-employed or other work basis) including all coaches, umpires, referees and other officials.