Palace for Life and Crystal Palace back FA Play Safe Weekend 2024
English football unites this weekend to promote Play Safe – the national campaign to focus attention of the vital importance of safeguarding across our game. For us at Palace, it's a chance to reintroduce our safeguarding reporting tool, My Voice.
Palace for Life and Crystal Palace is right behind Play Safe Weekend, which is endorsed by the NSPCC and supported across every level of English football, including the Premier League, EFL, Barclays Women’s Super League, Barclays Women’s Championship, men’s and women’s National Leagues and across the grassroots game.
As Sue Ravenlaw, The FA Head of Safeguarding says: “The central push behind this year’s Play Safe weekend is to create awareness among individuals of the vital safeguarding role they can play in football. It really is about Everyone Everywhere, Every Time.
Play Safe weekend is a fantastic way of raising the awareness of safeguarding and putting this at the forefront of people’s minds, not just for this weekend, but throughout the season. This year, we’re asking everyone to know their role in safeguarding and we look forward to seeing clubs at every level of the game showing their support across the weekend, to make sure football is safe, fun, and enjoyable for all.”
To report a safeguarding concern with Palace for Life and Crystal Palace, use My Voice, a simple reporting tool for any safeguarding concerns.
INTRODUCING MY VOICE
My Voice is our tool for easily reporting safeguarding concerns – which may be about something that has happened or may happen or something that could harm someone.
My Voice is a simple online form that can be submitted by parents, carers, or Palace for Life participants. Concerns can be submitted using your name or anonymously.
The form can be accessed here.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
- Participants, carers, and or parents can simply open the online form and start submitting their concern by answering a few simple questions – using this link
- Once a concern has been submitted, it will go straight to our dedicated safeguarding team who will action the concern.
Please note, if you submit your concern anonymously, our safeguarding team will be unable to respond to your concern.
WHERE CAN I FIND THE FORM?
The form can be found here.
Posters with a QR code to the form will be dotted around the Palace for Life office and classrooms, where many sessions take place.
Some boards with the QR code will also be visible at some of our sessions outside of Selhurst Park.
My Voice concerns can also be submitted in the safeguarding section of our website. Just head to palaceforlife.org/about-us/safeguarding/ and click on the REPORT A CONCERN button on the right-hand side.
WHO CAN SUBMIT A CONCERN?
Anyone who is involved in a Palace for Life activity can submit a concern – that may be a participant of one or more of our sessions and parents and carers of participants.