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Child safety
comes first

If you are worried about a child at this club, you can tell us, and you can go straight to the authorities as well. You do not need our permission and you do not need to be certain. Every way to report is on this page.

If a child is in danger right now, call 000

A child is in immediate danger000
Victoria PolicePolice Assistance Line, non-urgent131 444
Child ProtectionAfter hours13 12 78
Tell us

Email us

It comes to our email and is read by our committee volunteers. Sam Marsh is our Child Safety Officer. Email is not an emergency service. If a child is at risk now, call 000.

MalvernValleyCC@gmail.com

Report outside the club

Cricket VictoriaMon to Fri, 9am to 5pm03 9085 4000
Cricket Victoria, by emailmpio@cricketvictoria.com.au
Cricket AustraliaChild safeguardingchildsafe@cricket.com.au
Cricket Australia integrity hotline1300 FAIR GAME1300 3247 4263
Social Services RegulatorReportable conduct and the Child Safe Standards1300 310 778
Kids HelplineFor young people, any time1800 55 1800
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    Tell someone straight away

    If a child is in immediate danger, call 000 first. Otherwise use any channel on this page. You do not need to be sure, and you do not need to come to us first.

  2. 02
    It gets written down

    A concern raised with us is recorded and handled under Cricket Victoria's Reporting and Complaints Policy, which we have adopted, whoever it involves, committee members included.

  3. 03
    It goes further if it must

    Reportable conduct is escalated to Cricket Victoria and the Social Services Regulator. That is not our decision to make.

Check any number above at its source:

Child Safe Declaration

Malvern Valley CC is a child-safe organisation, and has signed a declaration saying so.

Published November 2022Adopts Australian Cricket & Cricket Victoria safeguarding policiesStanding version until the committee reissues it

We have no juniors on the field this season, but our child-safe framework is already in place. It applies to any young player at training or on a match day, and it is a condition of any junior programme we build.

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    We adopt the game's own policies

    Our declaration endorses and adopts five of them by name: Australian Cricket's Policy for Safeguarding Children and Young People, its “Looking After Our Kids” Code of Behaviour, and its Commitment to Safeguarding Children and Young People, together with Cricket Victoria's Member Protection Policy and its Reporting and Complaints Policy.

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    One role, both jobs

    That declaration gives a single role both jobs: Child Safety Officer and Complaints Manager. For now our email is read by our committee volunteers, so if your concern involves someone on the committee, you can go straight to Cricket Victoria, listed above.

  • 03

    Nobody under eighteen drinks here

    Our code of conduct rules out alcohol for players under 18 at club functions, training and match days and nights included, other than where a parent is present.

  • 04

    Vilification is chased both ways

    Racial or religious vilification goes to the association whether one of our players is the target or the one who said it. The code's own words: “Under no circumstances will the club tolerate such behaviour.”

Policies & documents

One to download, the rest by email