Child Welfare — St Colmcilles GAA Club, Meath

The Children’s Officer - Aoife Daly

The Club Children’s Officers assists in promoting a child and youth centred ethos in St. Colmcilles. Aoife Daly is the Children’s Officer in our Club. Her role is to ensure the implementation and promotion of the relevant Child Welfare and Protection Codes and Guidelines for good practice in our Club so as to ensure that young people can participate, enjoy and benefit from our Gaelic Games in safe and enjoyable surroundings. She is a link between the children/young people and the adults within the club.

Club Children’s Officer

Aoife Daly
Tel: +353-87-6799785
Email: childrensofficer.stcolmcilles.meath@gaa.ie

Designated Liaison Person (DLP)

Claire Murphy
Tel: +353-8 to follow

Email:: childrensofficer.stcolmcilles.meath@gaa.ie

A Welfare Committee was established in 2023 with members from all areas of the club. You can speak to any of these people in the strictest of confidence and they will assist in any way they can.

The members are:

Des Morgan

Liz Wade

Mags O’ Donoghue

Paula Duignan

Helena Smyth

Richard Bennett

Claire Murphy

Louise Mulligan

Jimmy Ó Mathuna

Deirdre Matthews

Working with underage Children

This Code of Behaviour (Underage) affirms the policy position that all coaches who work with children and young people must:

• Undergo vetting

• Must attend relevant child safeguarding training

• Must obtain a minimum coaching qualification

Garda Vetting

It is a criminal offence, for a person acting on behalf of the GAA, or for the GAA as an Association to permit any person to commence working with children on behalf of the Association without that person first obtaining a vetting disclosure from the National Vetting Bureau in respect of the role for which they have been recruited. It is also a breach of GAA rule if you are working with children or vulnerable adults on behalf of the Association and have not been vetted. Please see the Garda Vetting Page (Linked here) for further, more detailed information on this subject.

Safeguarding

All coaches/volunteers working with children under 18yrs must attend and complete the GAA Safeguarding training course. Records of all coach/volunteer Vetting lists, Safeguarding lists and Coaching qualification certs are held by theClub. It is the responsibility of each coach/volunteer to ensure that their records for Vetting & Safeguarding are up-to-date.