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Nippers
"Nippers" is an activity-based program run to educate young children about surf safety and awareness when visiting a beach or aquatic environment. The nipper program also offers the participants the opportunity to meet a new set of friends whilst they are being challenged in activities controlled within a learning environment.
Through a fun and enjoyable delivery from our qualified instructors nippers are encouraged to learn about lifesaving. In addition to gaining vital surf safety and awareness skills the nippers learn basic carries, first aid and resuscitation skills.
For those nippers interested, the program also introduces the competitive side of surf lifesaving.
The nipper program is held during the summer period on Sunday mornings and is conducted at most lifesaving clubs. The season usually starts in October after school holidays and lasts until the Easter school holidays, with a break over the Christmas period.
For more detailed information on nipper activities please refer to the junior activities handbook in the Education section of the website.
VOLUNTEER / STUDENT DECLARATION FORM
The Commission for Children and Young People Act 1998, require Surf Life Saving New South Wales (SLSNSW) to ask all new members and volunteers and members renewing their membership after a leave of absence of at least one season, to sign the Volunteer / Student Declaration. All new members, and volunteers, over the age of 18 and those members under the age of 18 who work with children (eg: 16yr olds who help train the U/8 Nippers, provide water safety for Nippers, etc) MUST sign the Volunteer / Student Declaration ONCE ONLY. Members under 18 years can have a parent or guardian co-sign.
SLSNSW require clubs to keep the signed volunteer/student declaration form in a secure location for as long as that member is a part of the club. ** Please note that changes have been made to this process, and members need only sign the form once. This has been changed from previous years to reduce the burden on clubs. Clubs must ensure that every member has this box ticked on SurfGuard. It is an offence for prohibited persons to sign this declaration or to apply for or attempt to obtain, undertake or remain in child-related employment in any capacity, whether paid, volunteering or self-employed. The maximum penalty for falsely declaring that you are not a person prohibited from child related employment is 12 months imprisonment, 100 penalty units ($11,000) or both. CHANGES TO THE FORM
- The form is now able to be completed online. The form must be fully completed, printed and signed and then brought to the club to verify the new members’ identity. https://check.kids.nsw.gov.au/volunteer-declaration.php
- Appropriate identifying documentation (Drivers License, Passport etc) will need to be supplied to, and sited by a club official when a member initially completes the declaration
- Club declaration forms can now be randomly audited by the Commission for Children and Young People, and members consent to this by ticking the box on page two of the declaration.
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Working with Children Declaration
Circular
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