HPFC Welfare Team
Contact the team
Welfare concerns > welfare@heyfordparkfootballclub.co.uk
Faye Napper
Club Welfare Officer
Leah Barber
Club Welfare Officer
Latest Welfare News
Hello, my name is Faye Napper and I am the Club Welfare Officer for this season. Working closely alongside me is our Assistant Club Welfare Officer Leah Barber, who will be looking after all admin linked to the club officials and supporting me with welfare responsibilities.
At the start of the season I would like to welcome any new families, players, parents, coaches and committee members to the club. Heyford Park is a fantastic club to be part of and we are looking forward to a fun and successful season.
Part of the CWO responsibility is ensuring that all children, parents and personnel (e.g. coaches) involved in the football club know who we are and know how to report any concerns they have, so we do try and attend matches and training sessions to introduce ourselves. If you do have any questions or concerns with regard to welfare or safeguarding matters and you would like to discuss this, please feel free to get in touch. Whether this is an issue within our football club, or something you have witnessed at a match or at another club, I'll be happy to discuss any issues. Please email me at welfare@heyfordparkfootballclub.co.uk
The FA Whistle-blowing Policy
Whistle-blowing can be used as an early warning system or when it’s recognised that appropriate actions have not been taken. This approach or policy is adopted in many different walks of life. It is about revealing and raising concerns over misconduct or malpractice within an organisation or within an independent structure associated with it.
Sheldon Report -
Following on from the Sheldon report which the FA commissioned in December 2016, shortly after many former footballers from professional and grassroots football bravely spoke out about the appalling abuse they had suffered as children in football, there are 13 key recommendations that are brought forward from it. This is to ensure that all stakeholders in football have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities about safeguarding within football. Please see the parent/carer film ‘Let’s talk about keeping children safe in football’, which can be found here: https://youtu.be/4rUoMjgy_70
Heyford Park FC wishes to ensure that any adult and child involved with the Club feels confident and secure enough to raise complaints of any nature with the Club. We endeavour to make sure that any complaints received are solved quickly, simply and fairly. It is important for us to seek to deal with any issues in a satisfactory manner. Please see the policy on the website for further details.
As a Club Welfare Officer there are two key responsibilities
1) To be clear about the clubs responsibilities when running activities for children and young people.
2) To help club personnel understand what their ‘duty of care’ towards children and young people actually means and entails on a day-to-day basis.
The latter entails such things as ensuring policies are in place, that there is an understanding of Safeguarding and procedures to follow, communicating with all, attending county welfare meetings, carry out DBS checks, be an advocate for the Respect program as well as monitor/ investigate any incidents and ensure compliance with FA.