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Details of Safeguarding in Bowls Clubs can be found on the Bowls England site www.bowlsengland.com/safeguarding.
Safeguarding Officer CCSMBA - Steve Williamson safeguarding.ccsmba@gmail.com.
Bowls Development Alliance - 2022 - Anti-bullying Policy
Everyone has the right to experience sport in a safe environment, free from abuse and bullying. As in most environments, bullying can and does happen in sport. Sports organisations play an important role in creating a positive club ethos that challenges it.
Within bowls there is a commitment to providing a caring, friendly and safe environment for all bowlers so they can take part in a relaxed and secure atmosphere regardless of their age or background. Quite simply, bullying of any kind is unacceptable in bowls. If bullying does occur, all members should be able to tell and know that incidents will be dealt with promptly and effectively. This
means that anyone who knows that bullying is happening is expected to tell the Club
Safeguarding Officer as soon as they have concerns.
What is Bullying?
Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. The behaviour is often repeated and habitual. There is typically an imbalance of physical or social power. This imbalance distinguishes bullying from conflict. The dynamics of bullying can be more complex than the basic idea of a bully and a victim. This video clip from the Anti – Bullying Alliance explains other roles.
Understanding bullying as a group behaviour - YouTube
Bullying can be:
• Verbal - name-calling, sarcasm, spreading rumours, teasing.
• Emotional - being unfriendly, excluding, tormenting (e.g. threatening gestures).
• Physical - pushing, kicking, hitting, punching or any use of violence.
• Racist - racial taunts, graffiti, gestures.
• Sexual - unwanted physical contact or sexually abusive comments.
• Sexist – belittling someone because of their gender.
• Homophobic and biphobic - where people are discriminated against and treated
unfairly by other people because they are lesbian, gay or bisexual or are
perceived to be such.
• Transphobic - where people are discriminated against because their gender
identity doesn't align with the sex they were assigned at birth or perhaps because
they do not conform to stereotypical gender roles or 'norms'.
Cyberbullying has become more common. It is a form of bullying behaviour that
takes place on social media, in online games and through mobile phones.
Cyberbullying can have just as much of an impact on children and young people as
more direct, face-to-face bullying and is often harder to escape in the online worl
St Keverne Safeguarding Representative - Elaine Nowell.
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