Clarisse’s responsibility is to be clear about the club responsibilities when running activities for children and young people to make sure that those responsibilities are understood by others.

Clarisse also collaborate with other Youth League Welfare Officers as well as liaising regularly with the county Welfare Officer.

Clarisse has also the responsibilities to ensure and help the club personnel to understand that their duty of care towards children and young people actually means and entails on a day to day basis and this includes implementing a safeguarding children policy, anti-bullying policy and equality policy. Organise responsible recruitment processes including the taking up of references and submitting FA DBS checks (getting the right people into the game) and implement The FA Respect Programme codes of conduct.

Clarisse also communicates with:
Club officials about the Respect Programme and its aims, parents/spectators and get them to sign up to the Respect codes,
Parents and new players by getting involved with running ‘start of season’ welcome sessions for members,
Coaches and managers about the importance of being consistent role models for their players.

It is also important for Clarisse to monitor repeated incidents of poor behaviour and liaise with your committee (and where necessary Youth League Welfare Officer or County FA Welfare Officer), compliance with FA CRB checks through The FA CRB Unit for those who require one using The FA Safeguarding Online System

Finally Clarisse’s role is to make sure that everyone is having fun while playing football in a safe environment.