Essex Cricket is committed to ensuring that all children, young people and adults who take part in cricket have a safe, positive and fun experience whatever their level of involvement. Everyone who is involved in cricket has a shared responsibility to support this by promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk and individually and collectively, we are signed up to the ECB Safe Hands Policy and are committed to delivering the ECB Safeguarding Standards as set out in the ECB’s County Partnership Agreement.
All full-time staff, part-time staff and volunteers have read the Staff Handbook and have signed and agree to abide by the content and the Codes of Conduct.
We recognise our collective and individual safeguarding responsibilities and accountabilities.
We commit to:
If you have any Safeguarding or Child Abuse issues or concerns, please contact:
Phil Knappett – County Safeguarding Officer
Kate Morphew – County Safeguarding & EDI Officer
Emma Whiteman - Player Liaison Manager
E-mail – [email protected]
Telephone – 07717 728725
Essex Cricket is fully committed to the principles of equality of opportunity and aims to ensure that no individual receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, gender, disability, race, ethnic origin, nationality, colour, parental or marital status, pregnancy, religious belief, class or social background, sexual preference or political belief. This includes job applicants, employees, participants, volunteers and spectators.
Essex Cricket has also implemented the following policies around delivering the game to protect and safeguard players, coaches, officials and administrators.
Essex Cricket has implemented the following codes of conduct:
Essex Cricket - Staff Code of Conduct (Including Coaches, Managers & Team Officials)
Essex Cricket – Code of Conduct for Pathway Players (Children & Young People)
Essex Cricket – Code of Conduct for Pathway Parents / Carers and Spectators
We are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for all, especially for the young and vulnerable individuals who engage with our club. To ensure the highest standards of safeguarding and protection, we work in partnership with the DBS to ensure that all relevant individuals associated with our club have the necessary background checks in place.
Please explore the information provided on this page. If you have any questions, please refer to our FAQs below.
The ECB DBS process is online and anyone who is involved in regulated activity will need to complete a DBS application, providing they have a valid email address.
The applicant should contact their Club Safeguarding Officer (CSO) and ask them to initiate an online DBS application using the Atlantic Data website on the following link:
Applicants will need to provide the following information:
Once your application has been initiated, you will receive an e-mail with instructions to complete the verification process.
You will be asked to complete an online form to input your ID documentation eg: Passport, Driving Licence, Birth Certificate, Utility Bill, P45/P60. Please remember to make a note of the documents you use and the dates of issue used.
Once the application has been submitted, you will receive a further e-mail with a list of ID Verifiers local to you to enable you to get your ID documents verified. If your CSO is registered as an ID Verifier they can do this, and you should contact them as soon as you get the e-mail. Once a meet is agreed, take your original documents to show the ID Verifier so they can verify you. If your CSO is not registered, and the details of the local ones are inconvenient, please contact Essex Cricket as members of staff can arrange to get documents verified.
The ID Verifier will log on to the Atlantic Data system, input the document data and submit the application.
The DBS will then go through the checking process and you will receive your DBS certificate through the post in around 7-10 days. This timeframe can vary depending on the checks completed.
Once a DBS Certificate has been issued, the ECB will send an e-mail inviting the applicant to register to the Update Service so that it can be rechecked/renewed annually. This is free to volunteers. Please confirm this e-mail so that you receive an annual e-mail for a DBS check.
If you are registered to the ECB DBS Update Service you will receive the following after a year:
Contact email from ECB to renew DBS:
Whether you are on the update service or not, you will receive an email notification directly from the ECB from email [email protected]. This will be approx. 1 month before your renewal date (every year) asking you to log into your DBS portal to consent to your recheck and complete your annual confirmation of your role/club/contact details-You need to do this if you are in a paid role or a volunteer.
If you have not logged in and consented/reconfirmed your details, then your renewal will not take place. Your ECB DBS clearance will expire on your renewal date.
Contact email from the DBS Update Service:
This is external to the ECB. The DBS Update Service will also email you from [email protected], as your account is personally registered to you. If you are a volunteer you will also receive an annual subscription email but as you are not required to pay you don’t need to do anything with this particular email.
Please ignore the statement ‘If you are still using your DBS certificate(s) as a volunteer then you do not need to do anything to renew your subscription. This will happen automatically.’
It will not as you need to respond to the ECB email.
If you do get a request from the ECB to send your DBS to the ECB you should do so immediately. You will get some reminders but if you fail to send it back you will receive a letter from the ECB temporarily suspending you from all regulated activity. The County SO will be informed, and they will let your CSO know.
CSOs can keep track of applications for their club as they go through the process if they are registered as Online ID Verifiers. If they are not registered, Essex Cricket Office staff can track the progress of applications. Contact the Essex Cricket Office email: [email protected]
If you earn more than £800 through your cricket activities, you will have to pay a fee for your DBS:
The cost to registering to the Update Service is £13 per annum for those in paid roles. This is paid directly to the DBS Update Service (online) when registering and renewing your subscription. Please note if you change your bankcard or details this may have an impact on renewing your ‘paid for’ DBS.
The expiry for an ECB DBS enhanced certificate is one year. You will need to consent to the annual Update Service in order for your DBS check to be carried out each year. Once on the Update Service you will receive an email to action from [email protected] a few weeks before its expiry. You will receive an e-mail containing a link to log in and confirm your role and contact details.
Please note: You will also receive an e-mail from [email protected] government website stating that your DBS will automatically be extended for another year. This is an automated e-mail and is NOT the case. If you ignore the ECB e-mail, your DBS will expire.
Club Safeguarding Officers may have up to two additional ID verifiers to themselves. They should email the Essex Safeguarding Team giving full details of whom they need to be Verifiers.
If your query concerns obtaining an online ECB DBS, please contact [email protected] except:
