Football NSW Child Protection Training Requirements
To meet Football NSW child protection training requirements:
- Log into the Sport Integrity Australia e-learning website
- Go to LOGIN or REGISTER for Sport Integrity Australia using either your SIA or your old PBTR username & password or create a new SIA account. Eventually everyone will need an SIA account.
(Note: If you create a new account it will not show your old Play By The Rules certificates.) - Log in, then select the Find Courses tab at the top of the page, scroll down to find the Course you need to complete and select “enrol” or if you have started the course previously select “Go to Course”.
- Select “COURSE” and follow the steps to complete the training. The courses are free and each course takes approx. 20-30 minutes to complete.
- Required courses:
- Safeguarding Children and Young People in Sport Induction, and
- PBTR-Harassment & Discrimination
- Once the course is finished, return to “Home” tab and then the “Download Certificate” tab. Select “View my Badges” to ensure your course badge is listed, then select “Download Certificate” and your E-Learning certificate will then display showing a badge on the certificate for each training course that you have completed. Save the Certificate to your computer. (right click your mouse and select Save As) and then upload your SIA Certificate to Football NSW.
UPLOAD YOUR CERTIFICATE TO FOOTBALL NSW HERE
The completion of these courses is mandatory for officials registering for the FNSW competitions as listed. There are no exemptions or recognition of prior learning.
Under these requirements, the term ‘team official’ includes but is not limited to coach, manager, trainer, physiotherapist, Doctor or any other official required to be registered and hold a FNSW ID Card to be able to enter the technical area or playing pitch.
These requirements do not apply to NSW Ambulance officers, NSW Fire Brigade, NSW Police, SES or other emergency service personnel in the course of performing their duties.
SIA training course badges are now listed on your SIA ELearning Certificate.
Go to the SIA ELearning website and login. Select the “Download Certificate” tab and then select either “View my Badges” to see your completed courses, or select “Download Certificate” to view and save your SIA ELearning Ceritificate which shows all of your course badges.
Your SIA ELearning Certificate will show a badge for each course completed and the date that you completed the course. If your course badge has an expiry, it will also show how long the certification is valid for. For example the PBTR Harassment & Discrimination course expires 2 years from issue date.
No, the on-line Child Protection training course requirements pf FNSW are not part of the Working with Children Check (WWCC). Completing the SIA online training courses is required by FNSW to help educate coaches, managers and people who work with children about what they need to know when working and volunteering with children and young people aged under 18 years of age.
The WWCC is not a training course. The WWCC is a legal requirement of the NSW State Government which involves applying for a WWCC, the Government then background checks the applicant, and then once cleared issues the applicant with a WWC Number. The applicant then provides their WWC Number to their club and the club verifies the WWC Number in the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian (OCG) Employer Portal. Every club and association must be registered with the NSW OCG.
For further information about the WWCC click here
The WWCC is a mandatory Government requirement which checks the background of people who are intending to work or volunteer with children. If you complete a WWCC application and are cleared to work with children, you will receive a WWC Number supplied by NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian.
The applicant then provides their WWC Number to their club and the club verifies the WWC Number in the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian (OCG) Employer Portal.
Every club and association within Football NSW with players aged under 18 years must be registered with the NSW OCG for the Working with Children Check.
For further information about the WWCC click here
Yes. Every person within FNSW working in a paid or volunteer role with children under 18 years of age is required to have a Working with Children Check. (except for people who are under 18 years of age themselves).
Everyone in the competitions listed also has to complete the online training courses as outlined.
You must provide your WWC Number to your club. You must also keep your WWC on file as it will be required whenever you apply to work or volunteer with children.
The club then verifies the WWC Number in the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian (OCG) Employer Portal. Every club and association must be registered with the NSW OCG.
For further information about the WWCC click here
Football NSW requires the following persons aged over 18 years to obtain a WWC Number and provide it the club, association, branch or referee’s branch they are applying to work or volunteer with:
- All persons who are in a role working or volunteering with children under 18 years.
- All coaches and managers working or volunteering with children under 18 years.
- All technical directors working or volunteering with children under 18 years.
- All referees, referee coaches and referee mentors (except those U18 years of age).
- All administrators working or volunteering in a club that has participants U18 years.
- All persons working or volunteering in a club who has access to the Registration Details or Database or personal details of participants or members U18 years.
- All Directors and Committee Members of clubs etc. with participants aged U18 yrs.
- All Member Protection Information Officers (MPIOs).
- All persons working or volunteering at a camp, tour or event which involves an overnight stay or overnight accommodation (of one night or more) with children under 18 years. Includes overnight accommodation in motels, hotels, cabins, camping, group accommodation or overnight air travel, train travel or bus travel.
- All persons in any other child related roles in football working or volunteering with children U18 years.