CYP Now - Child Protection: Football Association tightens its controls on contact with children

An estimated 500,000 adults with access to children and young people through football will have to undergo Criminal Records Bureau checks under an ambitious child protection programme from the Football Association.

Clubs that want to participate in FA-affiliated football for under-18s after 1 August 2007 will only be able to do so if all people with access to children have been checked through the FA's own CRB unit.

This is the final stage of a three-year timetable unveiled this week. In the first phase, the FA, following advice from the Home Office and the CRB, will from 1 January 2005 stop accepting checks done outside of its CRB unit.

However, it will continue to provide a "portability" service within football, so if coaches move from one club to another their new club will be able to contact the FA CRB unit to access their information.

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