{"id":633,"date":"2017-04-20T14:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T18:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportingfctoronto.com\/?page_id=633"},"modified":"2020-09-23T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:43:30","slug":"police-checks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sportingfctoronto.com\/about-us-2\/guidelines\/police-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Police Checks<br \/>\n<b>Volunteer Screening Policy<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sporting FC Soccer Club supports the initiative of The Ontario Soccer Association and adopts its policy and procedures for Volunteer Screening.<\/p>\n<p>Educating participants, coaches, managers, leaders, and volunteers about abuse and harassment is very important. The Sporting FC Soccer Club recognizes that the organization has a responsibility to appropriately screen any person who will have access to vulnerable people.\u00a0 This responsibility is both moral and legal; it is not only the \u201cright\u201d thing to do but it is legislated under the \u201cDuty of Care\u201d concept.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuty of Care\u201d is a legal principle that identifies the obligations of individuals and organizations to take reasonable measures to care for and protect their clients.\u00a0 It is important to understand that Canadian courts will uphold organizations\u2019 responsibilities to screen carefully.\u00a0 This is part of their \u201cDuty to Care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The OSA Screening Handbook has Position Descriptions and Application Forms identical to those provided in this booklet. The Handbook also provides valuable advice on Interview procedures, Reference Checks, Police Checks and Training. The Club Harassment or Welfare Officer should download a copy of this document from www.ontariosoccer.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Checks Volunteer Screening Policy &nbsp; The Sporting FC Soccer Club supports the initiative of The Ontario Soccer Association and adopts its policy and procedures for Volunteer Screening. Educating participants, coaches, managers, leaders, and volunteers about abuse and harassment is very important. The Sporting FC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":538,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingfctoronto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingfctoronto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingfctoronto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingfctoronto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingfctoronto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportingfctoronto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingfctoronto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingfctoronto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}