|
This page provides
clubs and volunteers with links to useful contacts where you can find
more information about:
-
Expenses
-
Contracts, and
-
Health and
safety
Useful organisations
Amateur Swimming Association
Wide ranging resources
are available including the ASA’s policies on recruiting, training and
retaining volunteers.
Sport England
Wide ranging resources
and research are available
do-it.org.uk
Launched in 2001 as the first, and still the only, national database
of volunteering opportunities in the UK.
Criminal Records Bureau
The CRB’s
aim is to help organisations in the public, private and voluntary
sectors by identifying candidates who may be unsuitable to work with
children or other vulnerable members of society.
Volunteering England
Volunteering England
is the national volunteer dev elopement organisation for England. It
works strategically across the voluntary, public and private sectors to
raise the profile of volunteering as a powerful force for change, and it
provides support systems to assist anyone involved with volunteers
Health and
Safety Executive For more information
about all aspects of health and safety you can call the Health and
Safety Executive Infoline on 08450 3435 0055.
Useful publications
Volunteers and the Law
A valuable reference
for large and small organisations. It clearly explains the main issues
around volunteers’ legal status and responsibilities that organisations
have towards their volunteers
The
Independent Safeguarding Authority.
A new scheme for vetting, barring and
accessing CRB checks. The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA)
scheme for vetting and barring will aim to help organisations increase
protection of children and vulnerable adults, by improving the current
provisions for screening potential (and current) volunteers and
employees.
|
