❓ Mr. L'Estrange asks about the Fair Safe Sport project and its initiatives to ensure safe and fair environments in sporting clubs. The Minister outlines the project's components, collaborative partnerships, and ongoing implementation to support state sporting associations.
AnsweredQoN 209Legislative Assembly
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FAIR SAFE
SPORT PROJECT
209. Mr S.K. L'ESTRANGE to the Minister for Sport
and Recreation:
Can the minister outline for the house the work being done in
partnership with state sporting associations, through initiatives such as the
KidSport program, to ensure that our clubs are providing safe and fair
environments for all participants?
SPORT PROJECT
209. Mr S.K. L'ESTRANGE to the Minister for Sport
and Recreation:
Can the minister outline for the house the work being done in
partnership with state sporting associations, through initiatives such as the
KidSport program, to ensure that our clubs are providing safe and fair
environments for all participants?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Churchlands for the question. This is
an important topic because as parents we always encourage our kids to get
involved with sporting clubs and to join sporting clubs. When we do that, we
place a lot of trust in those sporting clubs and associations, and we need to
maintain that trust. This is what makes the Fair Safe Sport project, run by the
Department of Sport and Recreation through the Western Australian Sports
Federation, so important. It is a three-year initiative that commenced back in
July 2012. Around $735 000 has been allocated to the Sports Federation to
deliver this project. While the underlying principle is to build and maintain a
positive culture, the purpose of the Fair Safe Sport project is to build the
capacity of the state sporting associations and their clubs so that they can
deal with these issues, which I am sure is important to everyone here who has
kids.
There are four main components of the project—child
safety, cyber safety, the member protection information officer network and
complaint management. It is also a collaborative, as it has to be if we are to
take on this role and do it well. WA Police, the child abuse squad, the Equal
Opportunity Commission of Western Australia, the working with children
screening unit and the Department for Child Protection and Family Support are
all partners and form a reference group with DSR and the Sports Federation. The
implementation of this initiative is ongoing within the industry. As an
industry involved in sport and recreation, we require support and education.
This is being achieved by face-to-face training, the development of resources
and the Sports Federation establishing relationships with the screening unit,
keeping abreast of trends and those types of things. We are also looking at the
increased use of technology in the community, particularly social media, which
has caused some problems, one of which we have dealt with recently, and not
just in sport. There was a problem within sport, and I think that case has been
dealt with quite well recently. The primary focus is to create safe and fair
environments, give protection and provide information and capacity to the state
sporting associations. These policies and procedures will be invaluable at
times when these problems arise so that people know what to do, know how to
handle it and can make sure it is safe for our kids to go to a club.
I conclude by saying that it is probably not the most
glamorous side of sport and recreation. We often talk about the glamorous sides
at the high end; nevertheless, this program is extremely important. The Fair
Safe Sport program is a really good program and it is what makes sporting clubs
such invaluable assets to our communities. I will continue to support it. I
congratulate Rob Thompson and those at the WA Sports Federation for the role
they are playing in rolling out this excellent program.
an important topic because as parents we always encourage our kids to get
involved with sporting clubs and to join sporting clubs. When we do that, we
place a lot of trust in those sporting clubs and associations, and we need to
maintain that trust. This is what makes the Fair Safe Sport project, run by the
Department of Sport and Recreation through the Western Australian Sports
Federation, so important. It is a three-year initiative that commenced back in
July 2012. Around $735 000 has been allocated to the Sports Federation to
deliver this project. While the underlying principle is to build and maintain a
positive culture, the purpose of the Fair Safe Sport project is to build the
capacity of the state sporting associations and their clubs so that they can
deal with these issues, which I am sure is important to everyone here who has
kids.
There are four main components of the project—child
safety, cyber safety, the member protection information officer network and
complaint management. It is also a collaborative, as it has to be if we are to
take on this role and do it well. WA Police, the child abuse squad, the Equal
Opportunity Commission of Western Australia, the working with children
screening unit and the Department for Child Protection and Family Support are
all partners and form a reference group with DSR and the Sports Federation. The
implementation of this initiative is ongoing within the industry. As an
industry involved in sport and recreation, we require support and education.
This is being achieved by face-to-face training, the development of resources
and the Sports Federation establishing relationships with the screening unit,
keeping abreast of trends and those types of things. We are also looking at the
increased use of technology in the community, particularly social media, which
has caused some problems, one of which we have dealt with recently, and not
just in sport. There was a problem within sport, and I think that case has been
dealt with quite well recently. The primary focus is to create safe and fair
environments, give protection and provide information and capacity to the state
sporting associations. These policies and procedures will be invaluable at
times when these problems arise so that people know what to do, know how to
handle it and can make sure it is safe for our kids to go to a club.
I conclude by saying that it is probably not the most
glamorous side of sport and recreation. We often talk about the glamorous sides
at the high end; nevertheless, this program is extremely important. The Fair
Safe Sport program is a really good program and it is what makes sporting clubs
such invaluable assets to our communities. I will continue to support it. I
congratulate Rob Thompson and those at the WA Sports Federation for the role
they are playing in rolling out this excellent program.
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