In the context of your role at Anstruther G.C, the following good practice guidelines should be followed:

• Make golf fun, enjoyable and promote fair play.

• Treat all players equally, with respect, dignity and fairness.

• Involve parents, carers and carers wherever possible.

• Build balanced relationships based on mutual trust that empower and include children and vulnerable adults in the decision-making process.

• Always work in an open environment. Avoid private or unobserved situations.

• Put the welfare of each player first before winning or achieving performance goals.

• Be an excellent role model including not smoking or drinking alcohol in the company of children.

• Give enthusiastic and constructive feedback rather than negative criticism.

Practice Never to Be Sanctioned

In the context of your role at Anstruther G.C the following practices will never be sanctioned:

• Engaging in sexually provocative games, including horseplay.

• Forming intimate emotional, physical or sexual relationships with children and vulnerable adults.

• Allowing or engaging in touching a player in a sexually suggestive manner.

• Allowing players to use inappropriate or sexualised language unchallenged.

• Making sexually suggestive comments to a player, even in fun.

• Reducing a player to tears as a form of control.

• Allowing allegations made by a player to go unchallenged, unrecorded or not acted upon.

• Inviting or allowing players to stay with you at your home.

• Coaches and leaders sharing a room alone with a player for sleeping accommodation

• Recognise the developmental needs and capacity of children and vulnerable adults and avoid excessive training and putting undue pressure on them

• Allowing the right (UNCRC) for a child to express views freely in all matters affecting them

All concerns about breach of this Code of Conduct will be taken seriously and responded to in line with Anstruther G.C, Responding to Concerns procedure.