Welfare and Safeguarding

North Dorset Turbos is committed to providing a caring, friendly, and safe environment for all our members, so that when they participate in club activities, they do so in a relaxed and secure environment

Our club has Swim Mark accreditation. This is the Swim England’s ‘quality standard’ to recognise the clubs that are committed to providing safe, effective and quality services for the benefit of their members.

These are clubs with high standards of governance, sustainability and effectiveness.

Lucy Bowden is our first point of contact for anyone within the club who has a child safeguarding or welfare concern. Safeguarding concerns can be raised by children, parents and other adults.

If you have a concern about the welfare of any child or the behaviour of an adult towards any child you should, without delay, contact the club welfare officer.

She is happy to discuss concerns in person and if this is not possible, please email Lucy at welfarendt@gmail.com

In partnership with the club committee, the Welfare Officer ensures that the club is adopting and implementing child safeguarding policy and procedures which are necessary for it to provide its duty of care to children.

North Dorset Turbos fully endorses and operates in accordance with Swim England’s Child Protection Policy (Wavepower 2020-2023: Child safeguarding policy and procedures for clubs).

We adhere to the Swim England Photography and Photographing Swimmers Policy, which can be found in their Wavepower document. Links to the Wavepower documentation can be found below.

More help and information is also available from Childline and the NSPCC helplines.