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ETA Annual Report
Online Disclosure Services
England Touch are driving forward our safeguarding and child protection policies and it is a requirement that all
clubs affiliated to us, identify their main coaches who are working with any U18 or vulnerable adults. It is our
duty to ensure that all coaches working within our touch community hold relevant, up to date DBS checks. We
have a support system in place to enable identified coaches to go through the process of obtaining an enhanced
DBS check.
We have continued to provide support to affiliated clubs/coaches with their online disclosure checks. We have
completed twelve DBS online checks since we started the process, and several awaiting ID verification, but still
have the majority of affiliated clubs who have not yet registered their coaches or evidenced their DBS registered
numbers. It is a priority area to ensure that all clubs within the ETA have at least one named coach who can
provide their DBS reference nu mber that will be stored on a secure database at the ETA.
Each club has the opportunity to use the services of the ETA to help administer these checks. The ETA is working
with GBG Online Disclosures (formerly the TMG CRB group) one of the largest criminal records checking
providers in the UK, to administer online checks. GBG, are an Umbrella Body for the Disclosure and Barring
Service (formerly the Criminal Records Bureau). http://www.onlinedisclosures.co.uk/about-us/
We now have three ID verifiers in place so as to create more opportunities for the completion of checks as this
was an area in the process that proved to be the most lengthy given that the verifiers need to see the applicants
ID first hand and geographically, all the applicants were not within easy access of the verifiers.
Julia Kang
Disclosure Manager

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