Safeguarding Courses

Durham Cricket Foundation is committed to supporting cricket clubs and volunteers to provide safe, welcoming and enjoyable environments for everyone involved in the game. Safeguarding is a shared responsibility, and having the right training in place helps clubs meet their obligations while giving volunteers the confidence to carry out their roles effectively.

We deliver ECB’s safeguarding courses at a local level. These opportunities support clubs to meet safeguarding requirements and ensure that everyone understands how to recognise concerns and respond appropriately.

Introduction to Safeguarding

This free course is available to everyone involved in cricket. Safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility, so whatever your role in cricket, everyone should understand the importance of keeping children, young people and adults safe.

With this in mind, we invite you, and everybody at your club or organisation, to complete our online Introduction to Safeguarding. The training provides basic knowledge and advice in creating a safe cricket environment for everyone, recognising signs of abuse, what to do if you have any concerns or if you are approached by anyone with concerns that they may have.

This training should take around 30 minutes to complete and is accessible on a laptop, tablet or mobile phone. You can access this training by clicking here. Please note this course is not certified.

Safeguarding Level 2

Safeguarding Level 2 is the new course from the Cricket Regulator Safeguarding Team on behalf of the ECB, which has replaced Safeguarding for Specialist Roles (SSR).

Robust safeguarding helps to keep our cricket community safe and welcoming. This course will provide the learner with what to look out for and how to respond to concerns.

The course is suitable for coaches or activators, officials, captains/vice-captains, team managers, junior supervisors, volunteer coordinators, Chairs and committee members, club and league safeguarding officers.

The aims and objectives of the course are to create a safe and inclusive cricket environment; describe what a safeguarding concern is; respond appropriately to concerns; describe how to report and record safeguarding concerns

This training should take around 1 hour to complete. The certification is valid for 3 years.

The new Safeguarding Level 2 module replaces Safeguarding for Specialist Roles (SSR). If you have an active accreditation on a version of SSR courses you do not need to complete this course until your

Training for Club Safeguarding Officers

Club Safeguarding Officers need to complete two sets of training:

• Safeguarding Level 2 (online) – see above for registration information
• Safe Hands workshop – Level 3 (face to face and run by Durham Cricket Foundation)

These courses should be updated every 3 years.

Club Safeguarding Officers must be over 18 years of age and hold a current ECB issued DBS Certificate.

Safe Hands Courses

The Safe Hands Workshop is a three-hour, cricket-specific safeguarding course for Club Safeguarding Officers.

It provides practical guidance on both preventing safeguarding issues and responding to concerns, helping officers understand their responsibilities and carry out the role with confidence. The qualification is valid for three years.

Club Safeguarding Officers who need to complete or renew the ECB Safe Hands Workshop can book onto one of the courses listed below.

ECB DBS Check

If you need an ECB DBS, please ask your club safeguarding officer (CSO) to initiate the online application for you. Alternatively, please contact Durham Cricket Foundation in order to initiate an application. To initiate your application, your verifier will require your title, full name (as it appears on ID documents), date of birth, preferred email address, club affiliation and your club role.

Full details of all the regulated roles in cricket requiring a DBS check can be found here.