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Boxing Scotland will be delivering a Child Wellbeing and Protection In Sport course to be held on Wednesday 25th September in Glasgow.  This course replaces the old style ‘Safeguarding and Protecting in Children Course.’

The Course will be run and delivered by Boxing Scotland.

As previously mentioned and listed below the course has changed and can only be completed with the two modules being completed.  That’s the 30-40 minute online module followed by the 3-hour workshop. 

The details and links to the course are below.

Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport (CWPS) Course Wednesday 25th September 1845-2145

Venue; Boxing Scotland Limited, High-Performance Centre, Olympia Theatre, 2 Orr Street, Bridgeton Cross, Glasgow, G40 2QH

Parking is available on the adjacent roads at this time for free alternatively, Bridgeton Train Station is opposite the facility.

 Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport (CWPS)

As you may be aware, over the last few months sportscotland has been working with Children 1st to create and pilot our very own safeguarding training – ‘Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport’ (CWPS).  This resource has been piloted over the last few months and went LIVE on the 1st of April. CWPS replaces UK Coaching’s, Safeguarding and Protecting Children workshop (SPC), which will no longer be delivered through sportscotland.  CWPS takes a blended learning approach:  Module 1 is theory based eLearning and Module 2, a 3 hour face-to-face scenario-based learning.  The main change from SPC is that each learner booked onto a CWPO course  MUST complete Module 1 before attending the face-to-face Module 2.   The CWPS eLearning Module 1 can be found via this link:  CWPS eLearning Module 1  This must be completed prior to attending the workshop at the end of the session you will be asked to submit your name and email contact details.  This will then be verified against your attendance certificate when completing the workshop. sportscotland will be working with our networks to communicate this major change in safeguarding training which will take time to embed.  We should work together to communicate the changes to our respective SGB staff, volunteers, clubs, coaches and sporting communities.  To accelerate the transition please ensure all volunteers are aware of CWPS and education and training systems/processes are updated as a matter of priority.  Please click here to find more information from the FAQs. If you have any further queries/questions please contact:  sheena.carroll@sportscotland.org.uk

The course will be limited to 20 places and will be on a first come first served basis.  so to avoid disappointment book early.  To secure a place in the course payments must be received by 1500 Friday 20th September 19. 

A reminder to all coaches that for the 2020/21 season each Coach re-registration must hold an in date Safeguarding Certificate or Wellbeing Certificate.

Cost of the course will be £15 per individual.  Payment can be made either by Cheque to Boxing Scotland Limited or bacs transfer to Boxing Scotland Ltd.  If you or your clubs intend to pay via bacs transfer please reference with your name of club or individual.  Payment must be made before Friday 20th September 19.

Boxing Scotland Bank details numbers for any payments;

Boxing Scotland Ltd

Ac: 00663179

Sc: 83 20 06

Please ensure that name details are listed if bacs payments are made, this will allow the district to identify payments made.

The following details are to be included within each booking to attend the course;

Name, Address and Club. Contact telephone number and email address.

Names for the course must be passed to Marianne McMahon via the enquiries@boxingscotland.org  or the West Region Development Officer; Paul Coleman either by email paul.coleman@boxingscotland.org or Telephone 07803 513699 or text.

Dear Members, further to our earlier post today regarding the re-scheduled 2019 AGM, we have an important update to bring you.

The meeting will no longer be held in the Cairn Hotel, Bathgate. Instead it shall take place in the Livingston Mercure Hotel, Almondview, Livingston EH54 6QB. The meeting will still commence at 1pm.

We’d also like to remind everyone planning to attend that there will be no motions to vote upon and there will be no items considered to competent other business.

Dear Members

As previously communicated, the 2019 Boxing Scotland AGM was scheduled to take place on Sunday 25 August 2019 in Peebles Hydro Hotel.

The quorum at Annual General Meetings must be a minimum of seventeen (17) delegates from member clubs – This was not the case on Sunday 25 August 2019 and the AGM was not held.

In with our Articles (16), the Quorum at Annual General Meetings shall be delegates from Seventeen Members.

If within half an hour from the time appointed for the holding of a
General Meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened on the
requisition of Members, shall be dissolved.

In any other case, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the following week, at the same time and (or at such other place as the Board may determine) and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for holding the meeting, the Members present, with entitlement to vote, shall be entitled to hold the meeting and vote on the business to be conducted thereat.

Taking the above in to account, the 2019 AGM will now take place Venue TBC on Sunday 01 September 2019 at 1pm.

 

Dear Members,

The Membership Database will no longer be available from the 1^st of August. Therefore, it is imperative that your club’s 2019 – 20 affiliation agreement is sent to either Paul Coleman (East and West), Ben Holme (North) or Marianne McMahon for uploading into the club folder.  A Club folder has been created for each and every club within the districts.  Over the summer we have been working hard to transfer all relevant, in date documentation from the database to place it into the secure club folder.

We have listened to membership feedback and has monitored the database usage over the last year.  We have found that a large number of member clubs do not use this online facility, apart from uploading an affiliation agreement at the beginning of each season.  Stored data is also out of date and or no longer relevant.  

Therefore, each club has been assigned a club folder on the Boxing Scotland secure drive, which each of the Regional Development Officers (RDOs) will maintain and monitor a Clubs status with regards Minimum Operating Requirements (MORs) during the season.  Our RDOs will also work with a club to update and help a club maintain the minimum required bronze standard and work towards the higher silver and Gold award.

All updated MORs documentation is now to be sent to either Paul Coleman for Eastern and Western District Clubs and Ben Holme for Northern District Clubs.  They will transfer the required documented evidence.

Over the coming season our RDOs will conduct an audit of all current information held and set about updating club folders where needed.

This new routine will help forge a closer working relationship between Clubs and the RDOs.

We would also like to remind members that all 2019/2020 affiliations must be completed via the pro-forma in the link above (fully editable):

Please note that this year’s affiliation agreement document must be completed electronically or signed and photograph taken and or sent to either;

Marianne McMahon Marianne.McMahon@boxingscotland.org

East/ West Paul Coleman Paul.Coleman@boxingscotland.org

North Ben Holme Ben.Holme@boxingscotland.org

In order to keep the new season membership updated, clubs will not be affiliated until these documents are completed and in the relevant club folder and full payment is made for 2019/20 affiliation and insurances.