Youth Football Clubs are all run by volunteers (mostly parents) who give up a lot of their valuable time to allow children to participate in sport.
Inevitably club committees have a large range of issues to consider, ranging from subscriptions and sponsorship through to fixture lists and training schedules.
Because the welfare of children within a youth club is so vitally important, all Football Association Youth Football Clubs have to have a Welfare Officer who is a member of the Club Committee (and who's job it is to ensure that Welfare Issues are not overlooked).
Matters relating to the health of children within the club (whilst they are involved in club activities e.g. Matches and Training) are part of the Welfare Officers responsibility.
As described in the Asthma Friendly Football Clubs document; "What is an Asthma Friendly Football Club" ..
The club needs to nominate an Asthma Champion (preferably a member of the club committee) who needs to ensure that the club and its coaches are all following best practise
Club Welfare Officers may well be happy to take on the role of being the Asthma Champion, equally there may another person within the Club Committee who is more suited to this role (perhaps a health care worker or a parent who has a child with asthma within the club).
The Asthma Friendly Football Clubs - Asthma Policy gives more details on this topic (this can be found elsewhere on this blog).
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