Who to call: a child's emergency contact

For each child, a guardian can give one phone number to ring if something happens at training or a match, and a short note about anything a coach should know. Both are optional, both are given by you, and both can be removed at any time.

You add them on You › Your family and profile, under the child.

Who to call

A name and a number. It can be you, or somebody else who can get to the ground — a grandparent, a neighbour, the other parent. If you add a second one, it is used when the first does not answer.

Who sees it: the coaches and team staff at your club, and the club's safeguarding officer. Nobody else — not other parents, not the other children, and nobody at another club. It is never on your club's public website and never in a team chat.

What a coach should know

Up to 280 characters, in your words: *"has an inhaler, in the front pocket of his bag"*, *"deaf in the left ear"*, *"allergic to plasters"*. It is health information about your child, so we hold it only because you have ticked to say we may, and you can take the tick away whenever you like — the note goes with it.

Who sees it: the same people as the number, on any day — not only on a day your child has a session. A coach planning Saturday on Thursday evening needs to know about the inhaler before Saturday. Every time somebody opens it, that is recorded: the fact that they looked, never what they read, and you can see the list.

Taking them away

Clear the fields and save, or untick the line that agrees to share them. Nothing is kept, and nobody is told you have changed your mind.

Who sees what

The whole picture, role by role: What can I see?