BE Accredited Coach requirements

British Eventing requires its Accredited Coaches to fulfil specific criteria, designed to help them to maintain professionalism and to provide the best service to riders at all times. These criteria include both essential qualifications and specific certification, including first aid, safeguarding children, public liability insurance and a DBS check. The requirements for coaches to become BE Accredited are centred around the British Eventing Coaching Certificates (BECC), endorsed by UKCC qualifications. BE Accredited Coaches must also hold fully paid up BE membership in order to remain accredited (all membership types are valid).

For any queries on the requirements, please email training@britisheventing.com.

For any of the relevant certificates required below, if the coach is also listed as a BHS APC (Accredited Professional Coach) and has already submitted certificates directly to the BHS, then BE can obtain copies of these. BE Accredited Coaches need to inform BE that they are listed as a BHS APC, and agree to data sharing.

First Aid Certification

All BE Accredited Coaches must be able to evidence an up-to-date equine specific first aid or first aid at work certificate at all times. A copy of the relevant certificate must be sent to BE. Specific requirements for first aid are as follows:

Follows the same requirements as the British Horse Society (BHS) Accredited Professional Coach (APC)
Each First Aid course must be certified by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

Accepted courses include:

A three-day initial first aid at work (FAW) course that meets the HSE criteria and guidelines
A two-day refresher FAW course that meets the HSE criteria and guidelines
A two-day initial BHS first aid course booked through the BHS
A one-day refresher BHS first aid course booked through the BHS
An Ofqual accredited Level 3 certificate where the course has been run over three days.

If you have never done a first aid course before you will need to do a three day first aid at work course or a two-day initial BHS first aid course, booked through the BHS.

If you have already done the three-day first aid at work course as detailed above, but your certificate has lapsed, you will need to do a two-day refresher first aid at work course either through the BHS or another provider who runs courses that are certified by the HSE.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks

Every BE Accredited Coach must be DBS checked in order to remain on the list. DBS was formerly the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.

Please email Training@britisheventing.com for more info

Safeguarding and Protecting Children

Along with all other British Equestrian member bodies, BE fully adopts the British Equestrian Safeguarding Equestrian Sport Policy. As part of this, we place great emphasis on the importance of our coaches completing a safeguarding and protecting children workshop every three years.

SAFEGUARDING IS EVERYONE’S RESPONSIBILITY

Everyone who is involved in British Eventing play a part in providing a safe environment for children and adults at risk within British Eventing and we all share responsibility for safeguarding,

British Eventing place the highest priority on safeguarding in our sport and we work to ensure that all children, young people and adults at risk are safeguarded from abuse and have an enjoyable experience at all British Eventing activity.

British Eventing work with British Equestrian Federation and its other Member Bodies to ensure that the whole Federation adopts and operates within an accepted ethical framework to protect children, young people and adults at risk from harm, abuse and degrading treatment whilst participating in equestrian sports and activities. The full policy can be downloaded from the BEF website.

HOW DO WE DO THIS?

We seek to ensure that robust and consistent safeguarding systems exist including;

developing policies and procedures to create a safe environment;
providing accessible education programmes for our coaches, volunteers and participants;
sharing information in a timely and appropriate manner;
responding to and ensuring safeguarding concerns are investigated swiftly and thoroughly, working with statutory agencies and via the designated Safeguarding Officer and British Equestrian's Case Management Team

IF YOU'RE CONCERNED

If at any point you feel you would like to report a safeguarding concern, you can do so via:

Safe to play where you can find top tips for coaches, parents and participants and venues, officials and volunteers.

Alternatively you can contact the British Eventing safeguarding officer directly via:

Email: safeguarding@britisheventing.com

Tel: 02475 313663

In addition, you can contact the BEF safeguarding team

safeguarding@bef.co.uk or call 02475 313443

More information about how to report a safeguarding concern can be found here.

If you want to talk to someone else, you can call Childline on 0800 1111 or visit www.childline.org.uk.

If someone is in immediate danger, call the police on 999.

Public Liability Insurance

Every BE Accredited Coach must show evidence of an up-to-date public liability or professional indemnity insurance certificate in order to remain on the list.