EQUITY POLICY
The Swimming School is committed to ensuring that equity is incorporated across all aspects of its development. In doing so it acknowledges and adopts the following Sport England definition of sports equity:
Sports equity is about fairness in sport, equality of access, recognising inequalities and taking steps to address them. It is about changing the culture and structure of sport to ensure it becomes equally accessible to everyone in
society.

The swimming school respects the rights, dignity and worth of every person and will treat everyone equally within the context of their sport, regardless of age, ability, gender, race, ethnicity religious belief, sexuality or social/economic status.

The swimming school is committed to everyone having the right to enjoy their sport in an environment free from threat of intimidation, harassment and abuse.

All swimming school clients have a responsibility to oppose discriminatory behaviour and promote equality of opportunity.

The swimming school will deal with any incidence of discriminatory behaviour seriously and appropriately.

DISABLED/SPECIAL NEEDS
Any person who approaches the swim school to participate in our lessons that are disabled/special needs/minority groups are welcomed and participate within the normal programme.
The office staff and Managers have all been briefed on how to take a booking and the following is the swimming school procedures for accommodating the above groups within the programme:
At the time of booking ask the prospective client about their requirements and explain how we would be able to accommodate them within our programme.
We endeavour to have only one disabled/special needs client within each class at any one time.
The information received about the disability/special need is noted by code on the registers and given to the teacher. Should additional knowledge be required we then check via the internet to get full facts about the disability/special need and should more technical knowledge be required we have a GP who talks us through the information to help us understand how we would best teach that client and what difficulties there might be.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN SWIMMING

Equal Opportunity is about celebrating difference and diversity and as such providing a swimming structure that can respond to this in a proactive and positive manner.

Kim Chapman Swimming School is totally committed to the principals and practice of equal opportunities across all of it's aquatic disciplines, both as an employer, provider and as facilitator of such practices by all it's members. In our work with key partners, such as the athletes, clubs, teachers, coaches, officials and administrators, we will advocate our policies make every effort to ensure that all participation has equity at it's core. Swimming is a 'sport for all'. It can and should be enjoyed and made accessible to everyone and to achieve this:

Kim Chapman Swimming School
- Is committed to work towards ensuring that swimming is accessible to the, many rather than the few.
- Recognizes the need to acknowledge the diversity of provision that is required to ensure that all people, regardless of their race, sex/gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, social or economic background can access swimming and develop at a level that is appropriate to them.
- Recognizes the need to celebrate differences and diversity of provision as a means of creating entitlement and accessibility to our structures.
- Recognizes that equal opportunity is about recognizing that people are different and therefore require different provision.
- Recognizes the need to consult widely in order to respond to diversity.

Addressing Equal Opportunities
In addressing equal opportunities, the Kim Chapman Swimming School will respond to issues of equity by:
- Recognising that swimming as an organisation - our staff, athletes, coaches, teachers, officials and administrators need to adapt and work flexibly in order to respond to the needs of a wide and diverse range of people.
- Take positive action to increase the involvement from under represented groups in all aspects of our organisation, participation, coaching, teaching, officialdom etc.

In doing so the Kim Chapman Swimming School supports four key principals as being fundamental to ensuring that everyone can participate in our sport and the achievement of equality of opportunity:

Entitlement: People have a right to participate in and access quality and appropriate experiences within diving, swimming, synchronised swimming and water polo.
Accessibility: It is the responsibility of the ASA - our teachers, coaches, officials and administrators - to adapt provision to fit the needs of the many. Inclusion: Wherever and whenever possible, all to access the same quality of provision, and if necessary to use positive action to ensure this.
Integrity: Whatever we do as an Association to change or adopt provision, it must be of equal worth, challenging, relevant and in no way patronising.

CHILD PROTECTION STATEMENT
All staff Employed by Kim Chapman Swimming School has a part to play in looking after the children with whom we are working. All staff, when they have a duty of care for a child, will do what is reasonable in all the circumstances for the purpose of safeguarding or promoting the child's welfare (Children Act 1989).
Our aims:-
- To ensure that the child's welfare is the first consideration.
- To recognise that all children, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnic origin, religious belief and sexual identity have a right to be protected from abuse.
- To support staff who, in good faith, reports his or her concerns that a child is at risk of, or may actually be, being abused.