Safeguarding Focal Point: who to call

Gilbert Kipkemoi Kiprop
Chairman, Speed Stacking Professional Society of Kenya, and SSPSK Safeguarding Focal Point

Contact: contact details are being confirmed by SSPSK
Available: to be confirmed

Save this number in your phone now, under "SSPSK Safeguarding", before you need it.

Call the Focal Point the same day when:

• a child tells you that someone is hurting them, or that something is wrong
• you notice a change in a child that worries you, even if you have no proof
• you see another adult break the Code of Conduct
• you are unsure whether something is a concern. Suspicion is enough; you do not need evidence.

• Childline Kenya: 116. Free, any phone, 24 hours. Call it if you cannot reach the Focal Point, and tell the Focal Point afterwards.
• If a child is in immediate danger, call the police on 999 or 112.

Keep trying the Focal Point. A call to Childline or the police does not replace the report to SSPSK.

• the date and time
• where it happened and who was there
• what the child said, in their own words where you can
• what you said in reply

The Concern Record is a form for exactly this. Write it before the details fade, within the first two hours.

• Do not investigate. Do not question the child again.
• Do not contact the family or the person named.
• Do not promise secrecy. Say: "I need to tell someone who can help."
• Do not discuss it with other coaches, parents or on social media.

The Focal Point decides what happens next: whether to inform the school, the child's parents, the Children's Office or the police, and makes those notifications. They keep a confidential record. You will be told what you need to know, and nothing more.