The Victorian sporting community, in particular grassroots clubs, have a new free and interactive way to understand and comply with the 11 Victorian Child Safe Standards following the launch of Vicsport’s Child Safe Online Education Program.
Featuring one module per Standard, users are able to delve into the content while working through practical, sport-based strategies and scenarios to help with their understanding. Breakdowns of compliance indicators, policies and procedures are also included while the modules feature the ability to save as you go, meaning you can work through the program at your own pace.
The free and interactive program is designed to guide sport administrators, volunteers, coaches and/or officials through the Standards.
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Check out the below resources to help your club offer more healthy choices to the community.
Healthy Choice for Sports. Healthy Choices is part of the Victorian Government’s commitment to promote healthy food and drink options in a range of public settings including sport and recreation.
Healthy Club Canteens.VicHealth partnered with The Big Picture Strategic Services to undertake the Healthy Club Canteens project. This pilot program was established to identify ways in which community sporting clubs can provide a range of healthy food options in their canteens or food outlets.
Healthy Choices. Bendigo Council has created a booklet of hints and tips to help clubs make simple, healthy and sustainable changes that will also support healthier food choices among your players, coaches and whole sporting community.
Club Help. Club help provides information and templates on healthy eating policies.
Vic Kids Eat Well. Vic Kids Eat Well can support sports clubs to promote water as the drink of choice and provide healthier food options for children, young people and their families. Vic Kids Eat Well have designed a set of healthy eating actions for sports clubs after wide consultation with our partners, sports clubs and state sporting associations. Once you register you will be connected with a health promotion professional who will work with you to make healthy changes in your club. Work your way through the bites, collecting rewards and celebrating your success as you go.
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Sports Medicine Australiais Australia’s leading multi-disciplinary network for professionals working in sports medicine, sport and exercise science, and physical activity. Sports Medicine Australia (SMA) produces a number of policies and guidelines to promote safety, health and wellbeing of athletes, staff, volunteers, families and communities.
Resources that are available for download include information relating to:
Extreme Heat Policy
Sports Trainer Practices in a COVIDSAFE Australia
Active Children
Active Older People
Active Women
Health Conditions & Screening
Hot Weather
Infectious Diseases
Mouth guard Policy for Sports Clubs
Medical Emergency Planning Guide
Concussion
The Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary has been developed to provide guidelines for injury data collection and classification for the prevention and control of injury in sport and recreation. The Dictionary has been written to assist sporting and recreation organisations, researchers, sports medicine professionals, first-aiders and individual clubs collect information on sports injury. The sporting organisation or researcher may customise a data collection form to suit their needs, but a sporting club may choose to use the sport-specific. The Dictionary is prescriptive in the use of data categories and options within those categories. This is necessary if the advantages of comparability and consistency are to be gained. Users are, of course, free to design forms and data systems that meet their needs, and to extend the items and classification in the Dictionary.
Sports Medicine Australia has also produced a range sport-specific fact sheets that discusses ways to prevent injury, advice for taking care of junior players and how to deal with common injuries to create a healthier and more active community.
Sports Medicine Australia has produced an injury fact sheet series highlighting prevention and management for 12 of the most common sporting injuries .
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In close conjunction with Council’s Child Safe Work Group, we have developed new signs to ensure our events and community spaces are safe, respectful and inclusive for our younger community members.
As users of our shared community spaces, we ask for your support in printing these signs and placing them in child friendly areas around your facility.
Manningham Council will not tolerate any abusive behaviour at any of our events or community spaces which makes another person feel unsafe and or disrespected and we hope you support us in spreading this message to our community.
