You can spot-check a club's professionalism. If it has good routines for everything to do with police certificates, it scores very highly. It can be said as bluntly as this: this is an area where cutting corners is not allowed! It is about the safety of our children, the heroes of tomorrow.
The general manager of any serious business can, with a few clicks, report whether the business is under or over budget. It should be just as obvious that the chair of the sports club can, with just as few clicks, report on the status of valid police certificates. Does everyone in the club who needs a valid police certificate have it in order? Do you know where to find the overview of presented and valid police certificates? Is it kept in one place? Has the board appointed a person responsible for police certificates? And a deputy?
Does that hit home? If you had Rubic firmly established in the club, you could have held your head high and answered Yes to every question.
The certificate is an entry requirement
– Our experience is that all sports clubs know that the people in the club who work with children must have a valid police certificate. The problem is more that because they don't have good enough routines for how this should be handled, it all fizzles out a bit, says Anders Retterås, general manager of Rubic.
– It's not the case that the police come in and ask to see valid certificates unless something has happened in the club, Retterås continues. We're talking about abuse here. But you don't get a role in a club without having presented a valid police certificate. That is the first entry requirement. A police certificate is a tool to prevent people who should not be responsible for children from gaining access to these roles.
– Our advice, based on what we see, is that sports clubs put good internal routines in place. That they regularly check that there is a green light for all coaches and support staff. Feel free to inform parents/guardians about this once a year. That signals that the club has everything in order, and it reassures parents, says Anders Retterås.
Dedicated feature in Rubic LagetMitt
In the activity app Rubic LagetMitt, everyone in the coaches and support staff is registered. Whether they have presented an approved police certificate is a natural piece of information. The date the police certificate was approved is recorded. The system is flexible, and each sports club decides how long a certificate should be shown as valid. Green in the status field clearly indicates a valid certificate. Yellow warns that it is time to renew. And when the time has run out, red is shown. The colour system is very effective.
We like the ones who go on green best, right?
Here you can read what the Norwegian Confederation of Sports says about police certificates.
https://www.idrettsforbundet.no/klubbguiden/politiattest/
https://www.idrettsforbundet.no/Nyhet/viktig-endring-i-politiattestordningen/
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