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Club News & Important Documents Last updated 21st February, 2008 Click here for news and info from previous years An Invitation from 'Burnley Down Under' click here for more details IMPORTANT CLUB POLICY STATEMENTS: Our Duty of Care to Young Athletes - As a responsible organisation, Burnley Athletic Club takes very seriously its duty to protect our young athletes from abuse. Click here to view/download our Child Protection Policy. The Way Forward - Our Plans for the future development of Burnley Athletic Club: Burnley AC has adopted a detailed Development Plan for 2005 - 2007, covering management of the Club, Coaching, development and encouragement of Athletes, School Links, Volunteers, Facilities and Equipment, and Publicity. Click here to view/download our Club Development Plan. Maintaining Good Standards of Conduct - Our Dispute/Disciplinary Procedure: At Burnley AC we expect high standards of ourselves as an organisation but there may, rarely, be instances where a complaint is received regarding the conduct of an individual. Again as a responsible organisation, we have drawn up a procedure to cover such an eventuality: Click here to view/download our Disciplinary Procedure. Equality and Diversity - Burnley AC is committed to the promotion of equality in sport and the celebration of diversity - to this end we have produced three important new documents which effectively address the questions: What are we going to do? How are we going to do it? How do we ensure we're getting it right? To view/download these documents, please click on the links below: Sports Equity Policy Statement: Equity Policy Statement in Adobe PDF format (30k) Equity Policy Statement in MS Word format (118k) Equality and Diversity Action Plan: Action Plan in Adobe PDF format (102k) Action Plan in MS Word format (203k) Diversity and Equality Audit: Audit Tool in Adobe PDF format (97k) Audit Tool in MS Word format (229k) The above documents are ©Julie Wall 2005 but she is quite happy for others to adapt them for their own clubs - however, if you do use them, all she wishes is that you acknowledge her work. A note on Adobe PDF files: to read these you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader which many PC's come with but, if not, PDF readers are free to download from the internet - Click below to download the Adobe Portable Document Format Reader: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html (use your browser's back icon to return to this page) NEWS ITEMS: click here to go to the News Archive Page (News Items from 2001 - 2006)