England Netball | Training and Education

Click the button below to see who requires what safeguarding training:

Once completed, necessary training must be repeated or refreshed every 3 years (as of November 2024 the 2 UK Coaching courses cost £40 each per person).

Additional learning

CPSU
UK Coaching
Safeguarding In Sport Course | (highspeedtraining.co.uk) – a free online course of approx 2 hours (can be done in several visits)
Safeguarding in Sport | OLCreate (open.edu) – free 90-minute and 12-hour courses from the Open University

Clarification of volunteer requirements

Coach of children – Level 2 or if coaching children alone, needs enhanced DBS though EN, needs one ‘Safeguarding Children in Sport course’, and needs EN membership. Remember if coaches’ safeguarding or first aid certificates run out, they may not be covered by EN insurance. Full first aid rules here.

Team manager (who has regular contact with children) – 4 times a month or more – needs DBS via EN, needs EN membership if they are on court on a regular basis. We don’t mandate this, but it would be a good idea for them to have some safeguarding knowledge or training.

CSO/Welfare Officer – needs EN membership. And – if they are in a club with any under-18 members (even one) they must have an enhanced DBS check carried out via England Netball plus 2 safeguarding training courses – see ‘Safeguarding Training – who needs it?’ button above. If no u18s, no DBS or training required.

Other volunteers – this depends on:

If they are regularly involved in instructing, coaching, caring or supervising children (4 or more times a month) – they require an enhanced DBS through EN. They should also have EN membership in order that insurance covers them
If they are asked to carry out first aid training and used by the club as a regular first aider, EN membership will cover them for insurance
If all they do is hand out bibs, keep score or other admin even if on the court side-lines they do not need EN membership, DBS or training
If you nominate a parent helper/volunteer (who isn’t already the CSO) as the safeguarding person for a particular event or match it makes sense for them to have some safeguarding training or knowledge, but we don’t mandate this.