We’ve created a slide deck tutorial for football clubs on how to familiarise yourself with the new process of an applicant uploading your vetting forms to the new FAI system.
There are a lot of advantages to the new approach.
Clubs will need to ensure that volunteers follow the process, …Read More
Process Improvements
Volunteer Recruitment – Building the Team
LOVING YOUR VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT PAPERWORKPolicies and procedures.Don’t you just love ‘em?!Well, of course, most people don’t!(And, being honest, most people don’t even read them). But, for my sins, I’m a lawyer, and here’s a confession: I’ve always actually thoroughly enjoyed reading and writing such documents. Why so? Because out …Read More
Senior Management’s Consent Triggers Section 28 Liability
In our most recent essay, Part 3 of our current review of Section 28 – Liability for Offences by Bodies Corporate – National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 – 2016 – we looked at the basic requirement to check (1) that an offence …Read More
S.28 Liability – Did The Body Corporate Commit An Offence?
In this week’s essay we’re going to start by breaking section 28 into its constituent parts.Section 28 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 – 2016 deals with the fall-out for senior management if a criminal offence is committed by the organisation …Read More
Handle That Vetting Disclosure with Care: 3 New Criminal Offences
We’re looking this week at the central importance of vetting in the policing and security of the Irish state; at three new criminal offences around the mishandling and falsification of vetting disclosures; and we look at the criminal penalties for breaches of the legislation.Section 26 of …Read More
Vetting – Challenging the Consensus
Ploughing your own furrow
How do you do something new in an organisation?How do you build something of value?These are some of the topics that the founder of PayPal, and first outside investor in Facebook, Peter Thiel, addresses in his book ‘Zero to One – Notes …Read More
An Organisation’s Most Valuable Resource
Time (created, and saved) and People (your existing team, bringing on new people) are, arguably, two of the most important resources to any organisation seeking to serve the children of that organisation’s community.The challenge? How to find that time, and create a culture that attracts people …Read More
Competing Declarations in the Recruitment of Volunteers
In this essay we’re going to look at the role played by two different types of ‘declarations’ in your volunteer recruitment process.We’re going to have a think about what we can learn from two leading historical documents (and visions) and what they can teach us in …Read More
Marginal Gains & The Protection & Welfare of Children
How do you improve the culture in a charity?How do you improve the culture in a sports club?To answer this question, we’re looking at two different topics and how what we learn from them can impact on the process of improving the protection and welfare of children being …Read More
