Safeguarding

Abuse is anything another person does that causes harm. Abuse can happen in families, between friends or anywhere. Peer on Peer abuse is the most common sort of abuse. Below are some different types of abuse that may be experienced:

Physical Abuse includes:

• Hitting, smacking, and slapping
• Burning or scalding
• Throwing things or spitting at you
• Shaking or suffocating you

Sexual Abuse including:

• Touching
• Saying or suggesting things of a sexual nature
• Making you watch, or
• Making you take part in things that make you uncomfortable, usually intended for adults
• Up-skirting, posting private images and content

Emotional Abuse:

When someone makes you feel bad or low about yourself. This can include ignoring you or putting you down. Placing you in a difficult situations or setting you goals that are not achievable

Bullying:

Bullying, repeated actions or words that make you feel bad about yourself or those linked to you. It can be online or face to face and includes:

• Name calling
• Pushing
• Threatening you
• Ridicule
• Hitting, striking and intimidation

Neglect:

When your basic needs are not met or provided, such as food, medicine, housing, clothing, as well as others such as physical, emotional, social, educational and safety needs. It also means not protecting you from harm or having dangerous environments and ignoring guidance and advice.

Discriminatory Abuse:

When you feel harassed or picked on because of who you are. These may be comments or “jokes and banter” which are personal and can include:

• Racist
• Sexist
• Homophobic
• Ageist
• Based on your disability

Grooming:

Grooming is defined as developing the trust of an individual, family or staff for the purposes of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or trafficking.

Coercive Control and Modern Slavery:

Coercive Control is a pattern of controlling behaviour and/or incidents that occur over time. One individual exerts power, control or coercion over another, e.g. restricting movements, access to money, isolating victim from family and friends, sometimes associated with threats and intimidation.

Modern Slavery

Modern Slavery encompasses slavery, human trafficking, forced labour and domestic slavery.

Abuse can also take other forms such as child sexual or criminal exploitation, genital mutilation (FGM) and hazing (initiation activities) amongst others.

Abuse is not acceptable.
Being a victim of abuse is not your fault, don’t keep it to yourself.
We will help.

Lancashire Cricket and its subsidiaries will not tolerate activity of any sort which creates environments for the radicalisation of individuals regardless of which extremist ideology it is based upon.

Radicalisation is “the process through which an individual changes from passiveness or activism to become more revolutionary, militant or extremist, especially where there is intent towards, or support for, violence.”

Extremism is defined as “the holding of extreme political or religious views”.
The strategy covers all forms of terrorism, including far right extremism, and some aspects of non-violent extremism.

All delivery staff have been trained to spot radicalisation and extremism and how to report any concerns that they might have if someone is showing extremist views or might have been radicalised.

Recruitment and Training

All staff who work with anyone under 18 or an adult at risk go through rigorous recruitment, selection, induction and training processes. This includes background checks (DBS) before they start working. Interviews, referencing and work place monitoring to ensure they can do their job well. All staff have specialist training, so they develop awareness know what to look for, and what to do to safeguard all children, young people and adults at risk.

Safety at Matches

We want your experience of watching Lancashire Cricket teams to be first class. To do this we ensure everyone follows safety and safeguarding procedures; All staff, partners and supplier services are suitably trained; We embed and empower a team of Safeguarding Stewards, hospitality teams and safeguarding managers across our footprint to ensure the very best standards are delivered and concerns can be responded to appropriately. Anyone under 16 years old must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times.

We use a number of initiatives to ensure that the environment is as safe as possible which include but are not limited to, designated people, additional needs training, wristbands, safe spaces and sensory rooms, sensory packs and a family stand which is alcohol free.

If you are bringing groups of children to a match or event onsite then please plan properly, organise meeting points for emergencies in and out of the ground, wear the same colours or something that distinguishes your children, identify the nearest toilets and food stands to where you are sitting, plan for hot or inclement weather, bring water bottles and use the water refill fountains, introduce yourself to your friendly stewards and always accompany children if they want to explore the stadium.

If you have any ongoing contact with Lancashire Cricket it is likely we will take some personal details, for example your name, address, date of birth, details of your parents or guardian.

This is so we know who you are and can contact you again. We might also ask to take your picture. This will be for good reason, like to celebrate an event or an achievement. Either way we will ask for your parent / carer’s permission to do this.

Normally if you give permission, we apply it to all situations where photographs might be taken. You can always opt out before, during or following.

We store all information and images in line with data protection law. This means all information is;

• Collected with your consent and your parents/ carers consent
• Stored safely
• Deleted within the correct timescales.

Matches and Live Events

Please be aware that it is a condition of entry that still and moving images will be captured and you may be included in these. These may be broadcast or used for publication and marketing purposes across a variety of formats and platforms.

If you would like to know more please click HERE.

If you feel a member of Lancashire Cricket staff has:

• behaved in a way that has or could harm a child, young person or adult at risk
• possibly committed a criminal offence against or related to a child, young person or adult at risk
• behaved towards a vulnerable group in a way that indicates he or she may pose a risk of harm or potential harm to children, young person or adult at risk
• behaved or may have behaved in a way that indicates they may not be suitable to work with children, young people or adults at risk.

Please report it using the form or contact number at the top of the page.

All allegations and reports are taken seriously. We will contact you, confirm details and outline next steps, keeping you as up to date as possible with developments.

How to report something you are worried about

Lancashire Cricket is somewhere where you can have a good time. It is also somewhere you can turn to if you want to share any worries. These could be worries at home, with friends, at school or at Lancashire Cricket.

We will listen

It can be difficult to share things. You might worry that something is wrong, you might not be able to explain things well. This does not matter; staff will listen and give you the time to talk, listen, act on what you say and most importantly make sure you're safe.

It can be difficult to ask for help, here’s what you can do

You don’t have to share everything all at once, small steps are ok. Tell them what worries you. Telling someone safe is the most important thing. Choose an adult you trust. Someone who makes you feel safe and you know will listen.

It could be;

• A coach
• A member of the Lancashire Cricket Safeguarding Team
• A teacher
• A family member
• A family friend

Telling someone your worries might make you nervous, try not to worry its normal..

Telling someone about things that worry you will make you feel better.

It might be hard to describe things, find the right words or tell us exactly what you mean to. We are good at listening and understanding. You might prefer to write things down, that’s cool too.

Talk to us if you have any worries, you can report a problem to us HERE.

If you are not satisfied with the outcome of raising a concern or complaint please consider escalating your concern via our whistleblowing process. This will be dealt with by senior members of the Club who will act independently. Full details can be found HERE. 

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