Keeping People Safe at Luton Town FC Community Trust

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Contents Introduction

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Safeguarding

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Children and Vulnerable Adults at risk

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What is Abuse?

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Types of Abuse

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Discrimination

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Who might be abused and where does abuse happen?

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Who might abuse you?

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What we do to keep children and vulnerable adults safe and well

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Your personal Information

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Pictures of you

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Social Media

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What to do if you are concerned?

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What happens if you are worried about something?

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Useful Contacts at LTFCCT

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Other Organisations who may be able to help you

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Introduction This information is about how Luton Town FC Community Trust (LTFCCT) keeps children and vulnerable adults safe.

Keeping children and vulnerable adults safe is very important to us at LTFCCT. LTFCCT is the charitable arm of Luton Town Football Club, we work with the local community and young people.

This information will tell you:

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What to do if you are worried about something

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What we do to keep children and vulnerable adults safe and well

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What we will do if we are worried about your safety

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Safeguarding Safeguarding means:

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Making sure people are safe and doing things to keep them safe

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Listening to people who speak to us

Supporting people so they can:

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- Choose and decide things for themselves

- And be the best that they can be

Children and vulnerable adults at risk A child at risk is someone who is under 18, whilst a vulnerable adult is over 18, both groups similarly need support to:

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Do things for themselves

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Stay safe from harm or abuse

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What is abuse?

Abuse is when someone does or says things to another person to:

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Hurt them

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Upset them

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Make them feel frightened

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Done on purpose or done by someone who wasn’t thinking

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Something that happens just once or that happens more often

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A crime

We want to keep people safe from abuse at Luton Town FC Community Trust

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Types of Abuse There are different types of abuse:

Physical Abuse. This is something that that hurts your body like being hit, kicked or slapped

Emotional Abuse. This is something that that hurts your feelings like being made fun of

Sexual Abuse. This is when you are made to take part in something sexual that you don’t want to do

Stealing from you, or making you give something away

Neglect. This is when you are not given the help that you need

Domestic Abuse. Abuse that happens at home from someone in your family

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Discrimination

This is when you are treated differently because of your:

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Gender. Male or female or something else

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Sexuality. This means because you are gay, lesbian, straight or something else

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Disability

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Race. This can be your skin colour or features based on where your family comes from

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Religion or not having a religion

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Who might be abused?

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Anyone could be abused at any time.

We are ready to support anyone to keep them safe.

Where does abuse happen?

Abuse can happen anywhere. It can happen in places like:

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At home

When you are out and about

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Who might abuse you?

Anyone could abuse you. It could be:

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Your partner or someone in your family

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A teammate

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Someone you trust

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A carer or volunteer

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A stranger

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A friend or neighbour

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What we do to keep people safe and well

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Designated Safeguarding Officers:

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We have Designated Safeguarding Officers who are responsible for your safety, they can be found at the Community Trust Office and protect you from things that happen from:

At both the boys and girls training centres and soccer camps

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We have some staff who are responsible for helping to make everyone safe. They are:

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The work we do with children and vulnerable adults in the community

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And the places that we take you

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Your Personal Information We keep personal information about people who are involved with the club.

We keep this information so that we can help them have a good time and be safe at the club

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Your address

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Your personal or family telephone number

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Your Name

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Your date of birth

We keep this information safe. We don’t share it with anyone.

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Pictures of you We will ask you if we can take photos of you.

If you don’t want us to take your photo, please tell us.

We use photos to show people what we do

We will only do it if you want.

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Show people in a good way

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Show people doing something good

We will listen if you are worried about certain photos:

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Show people fully dressed in the right clothes

We will follow the law about how to keep photos and other information safe.

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Social Media Social media is a way that many people communicate online.

Examples include Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

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We will not try to follow you on social media

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Our staff will only contact you by email or telephone and they may sometimes contact you by text.

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Staff have been trained to communicate with people in a safe way.

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If you want staff to communicate with you in a certain way, we will listen to you.

If you are worried about something you have seen online, speak to someone you trust.

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What to do if you are concerned?

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If you are worried about anything you should speak to someone:

You could speak to • A member of staff at the Club

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A friend

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A family member

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A social worker

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Any adult that you trust

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Your Football Coach

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If you speak to a member of staff about something that is worrying you, they will talk to our Designated Safeguarding Officer or our Safeguarding panel.

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What happens if you are worried about something?

The people at the Safeguarding panel are specifically trained to help.

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They will speak with you and help you think about what you would like to happen next.

The Safeguarding panel may need to speak to other people who can help.

They will ask your permission before they do this.

There may be times where the Trust has to share information without your permission to keep other people safe.

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If we share your information, we will always talk to you about why. Anything you tell Luton Town FC Community Trust will be kept safe.

Anything you tell Luton Town FC Community Trust will be kept safe.

Useful Contacts

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If you speak to a member of staff about something that is worrying you, they will talk to someone at the Safeguarding Panel or a Designated Safeguarding Officer.

Naeem Akhtar Club Designated Safeguarding Officer Email: naeem.akhtar@lutontown.co.uk Phone: 07584 635033 or 01582 561622 Sufian Sadiq Trustee Board Safeguarding Lead Email: sufiansadiq@gmail.com Kevin Thoburn Head of Trust, Senior Safeguarding Officer, Head of Safeguarding – Strategic Lead Email: kevin.thoburn@lutontown.co.uk

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For More Information If you need more information, please contact us by: Email: Safeguarding@lutontown.co.uk Tel: 01582 561 622 Website: https://www.lutontowncommunity.co.uk/ Post: Luton Town FC Community Trust Office, Kenilworth Stadium, 1 Maple Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU4 8AW

Other Organisations who may be able to help you Bedfordshire FA Sarah DaCosta Designated Safeguarding Officer Email: Safeguarding@BedfordshireFA.com Phone: 07960 500723 or 01582 567721 NSPCC www.nspcc.org.uk 0808 800 5000 CEOP https://www.ceop.police.uk/ Safety-Centre/

Luton Authority Designated Officer (LADO) LADO@luton.gcsx.gov.uk 01582 548069 Luton Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub 01582 547653 Luton Adult Safeguarding Team adultsafeguarding@luton.gov.uk 01582 547563

You can read our full safeguarding policies at www.lutontowncommunity/safeguarding

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