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SECTION 1 REGULATION 4 coaches and other adults having contact with minors, based on vetting/screening and registration processes. 7. Engage coaches and adult staff that are well trained and committed to their continuing development as coaches. 8. Provide suitable, safe facilities for the coaching and development of minors, including proper medical and first aid facilities. 9. Have readily available during training sessions and/or matches, persons (coaches or others) who are able to administer emergency first aid treatment to young players. 10. Have in place appropriate insurance cover for all players, coaches and staff engaged in any Licensed Training Centre activity. 11. Apply effective monitoring schemes designed to ensure that playing and training timetables for young players are properly regulated to avoid overplaying and/or over-training. 12. Adopt policies that prevent players travelling long distances and/or giving a disproportionate amount of time to training and development programmes to the detriment of the players’ academic or other recreational activities. 13. Ensure that Licensed Training Centre personnel inform parents (or legal guardians), schools and other interested parties how they intend to train and develop a player and seek to ensure that training programmes complement, and do not prejudice, other educational and/or vocational training that the young player is receiving or may receive. 14. Endeavour, in consultation with Unions, Clubs, Rugby Bodies, schools and colleges, to set a maximum number of competitive matches that young players should play in any one season as part of a structured season. The number of competitive matches should be determined, in part, by a player’s age. 15. Provide for a maximum ratio of players to coaches which preferably shall be 30:1. 16. Carry out an annual review of the progress of Licensed Training Centre players and regularly report on each player’s progress and activities to that player and his parents or legal guardians. 17. Take such steps as are necessary to ensure that all players adhere to the World Rugby Code of Conduct and receive appropriate guidance on drug education. 18. Ensure that in all matches within Licensed Training Centres and/or any training activities, coaches and other Licensed Training Centre personnel arrange a reasonably even matching of opponents. 19. Ensure that the Laws of the Game (including any variation of the Laws issued by World Rugby or Unions for young players in particular age Last update: 14 January, 2015 82


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