KSAS-AU INDEX

	A	Child Protection in the Sport Environment
	B	Local Business Web-sites and the Information Economy
	C	The Kids Safe-at-Sport Network [KSAS-Au]
	D	Index of Key Communications

A	CHILD PROTECTION IN THE SPORT ENVIRONMENT	

Child Protection in Sport is a very important aspect for ensuring that children
develop as true sports people with social skills as well as competitive natures.

The Australian Sports Commission has conducted considerable research and 
development into ensuring Junior Sports Clubs "Play by the Rules"
particularly with Child Protection Policies via State Government legislation 
and policies on inappropriate on- 

and off-field behaviour

[*****NB - The "Play-by-the-Rules" web link is sometimes updated and may be 
missing.

If either of the two web sites are not available please use these local web 
page links below

Local site "Play-by-the-Rules"

Local site "Responding to Complaints or 

Incidents of Concern" *****]

However very few Junior Sports Clubs have the resources and skills to put 
in place the appropriate Child Protection Policies and Incident Response
processes.

Hence OIC members have developed

a	Junior Sports Information System [JSIS] to enable parents to 
	assist their Junior Sports Club to comply with the Child Protection
	Legislation and "Play by the Rules" incident reporting and 

b	Kids Safe-at-Sport Network for local incident reporting and 
	resolution.

However who is going to pay for this ?

And that is where Local Business web-sites and the Local Information Economy 
Network [LIEN] provide the answers !!

B	LOCAL BUSINESS WEB-SITES AND THE INFORMATION ECONOMY

As we are well aware when Companies invest in web-sites they expect the World to
come to them to place orders.

Often they are very disappointed by the response and may blame the web developer.

This has happened a number of times for OIC members which is why those members 
developed SME eGallery Services in 2004 to promote their clients websites.

However that was not successful and the members' clients did not join as it
could not provide local exposure

This is one of the reasons that OIC members have developed the Junior Sports 
Information System [JSIS] to provide Local Businesses with a reason to 
sponsor local sports clubs as part of the Local Information Economy 

There are 16 Identified Junior Sports which can become available for sponsorship, 
providing opportunities to support local sport and the community with local 
advertising.

The Child Protection Legislation Issue

Every State has Child Protection Legislation with which every Junior Sports
Club has to comply.

This legislation is included as a link in every TIMS Tender
for each different State and Territory

This legislation requires every Sports Club to ensure that:

1	every Team Manager and Coach sign a Child Protection Document

2	a mechanism is in place to let the parents know that Team Managers/Coaches
	has signed the form eg each Age Group Team Managers & 

Coaches
	
3	a Child Complaint process - a way for a parent to lodge a complaint
	with the Club, Local Peak Body and Australian Sports Commission

For these important reasons OIC members have developed the Kids 
Safe-at-Sport [KSAS-Au] web site to provide that Child Protection 
Information and Child Complaint process for each Club site.

The KSAS-Au web site will also provide multiple web advertising 
opportunities for Local Businesses to fund the on-going upkeep of
the Local Sport team websites.

C	THE KIDS SAFE-AT-SPORT NETWORK

The Kids Safe-at-Sport network has a registered web site for each State 
and Territory to co-ordinate the Child Protection issues

	A	KSAS-Aus
	B	KSAS-NSW
	C	KSAS-Vic
	D	KSAS-Qld
	E	KSAS-SA
	F	KSAS-WA
	G	KSAS-Tas
	H	KSAS-ACT
	I	KSAS-NT
	J	KSAS-NZ

At the moment we are developing Power-point presentations on the Child
Protection legislation for a series of Child Protection Seminars during 2007.

In addition we are communicating with the NSW Office of Liquor, 

Gaming and 
Racing [OLGR] about local Community Development & Support Expenditure 
[CDSE] grants.

The CDSE grants are provided by Licensed Gaming Clubs like RSLs that have
to donate 1.5% of the gaming revenue into local community projects.

We have requested the NSW OLGR to advise us if local CDSE grants are possible
for the implementation of a local version of the "Junior Sport Information 
System [JSIS]" and linking to "Kids Safe-at-Sport [KSAS-Au]" for the Child 
Protection issues.

We look forward to working with you on this vital community issue and assisting
small business and Junior Sports Clubs to participate in and benefit from the
Local Information Economy.

There are 5 levels of Junior Sport Club Sponsorship	Sponsorship Fee/annum

A	Platinum - National - 4 Sponsors/Junior Sport	Au $ 10,000

B	Diamond - State - 4 sponsors/Junior Sport	Au $  7,500

C	Gold - Sport Area - 4 sponsors/Junior Sport	Au $  5,000

D	Silver - 4 Sponsors per club 			Au $  2,500

E	Bronze - 4 Sponsors per team - min 10 pages	Au $ 50 per web page

	This will provide EACH Junior Sports Team with 10 web pages
	for Team Sponsorship or 40 sponsors per Junior Sports team.

	A sponsor may want to have a different link to each web page
	and rotate the sponsorship to a different team every 4 weeks

D	INDEX OF KEY COMMUNICATIONS	

2007/04/18 AFTINET - invitation as National 

Sponsor

2007/04/17 Infrasport - Working together on 

Local Info Economy

2007/04/12 Rugby Union - Clubs & Local Info 

Economy

2007/03/31 IME - Local Marketing & Support 

Network

2007/03/29 Rugby Union - NSW Suburban 

Clubs

2007/03/14 Centrelink - The Child Protection 

Process

2007/03/01 Centrelink - Developing Local CIT 

Skills

2007/02/28 NSW OLGR Questions on CDSE 

Application

2007/02/23 Train-the-Trainer Process

Local Information Economy Network [LIEN]

Junior Sports Information System [JSIS]

2006/10/27 Sydney - Electronic Information Standards