Welfare Officer: Steve Newbold email: stephen.newbold@hotmail.co.uk
Deputy Welfare Officer: Teresa Watkins email: Telford.strange@outlook.com
While safeguarding is the responsibility of everyone within the club (led by the whole committee), having club welfare officers ensures the club has dedicated people with the primary responsibility for managing and reporting concerns about adults at risk.
Club Welfare Officers play a key role in ensuring that club members have a safe and positive experience at their club. Welfare Officers are key to all members knowing what to do and who to speak to if they have a safeguarding or discipline or conduct concern. They are also key to managing lower-level club issues and disputes, and/or flagging concerns for early intervention to prevent escalation and behaviours which prevent enjoyment of the sport. Welfare Officers also form part of the club committee and perform a key role in implementing good safeguarding governance locally at your club.
https://www.englandathletics.org/clubhub/resource/codes-of-conduct/