The app, which was developed in partnership with Jim Gamble, CEO of Ineqe, former head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Agency (CEOP) and founding chair of the Virtual Global Taskforce on child protection, is a ground-breaking development in safeguarding and is still the only app of its kind in the world.
The app is aimed at creating greater awareness and understanding about safeguarding best practice and addresses contemporary challenges such as social media, bullying and transportation.
Critically, it is to build confidence and competence so that adults involved in children’s football are better prepared to identify, respond to and report child protection concerns.
Furthermore, it now features a new and innovative safeguarding tool called Travel Tracker which allows parents, coaches, or officials who are driving someone else's child/children home, for example after a training session, to permit the child’s parent, carer or guardian to view and have oversight of their location for the duration of the child’s journey home.
