IFA Foundation vs GameSense Coaching

The Irish FA’s Safeguarding Children and Young People in Football app is an ideal educational tool for adults involved in youth football, as well as young players. The app is aimed at creating greater awareness and understanding about safeguarding best practice. Critically, it is to build confidence and competence so that adults involved in children’s football are better prepared to identify, respond to and report child protection concerns. The app: - Addresses contemporary challenges such as social media, bullying and transportation. - Tests your knowledge on safeguarding issues, policies and procedures. - Shares advice on how to report Child Abuse and Poor Practice. - Facilitates Push Notifications on Irish FA news, course content and safeguarding updates. The app was commissioned by the Irish FA and is designed and developed by Ineqe Safe and Secure.

GameSense was born out of our involvement with Paul Kinnerk in the Limerick Football academy. Paul introduced us to his philosophy and over the past 7 years we have used games as the primary method in teaching skills and tactical awareness in Gaelic Football. Through our involvement with schools we have seen the same approach work just as well with hurling. During our time with the academy we have designed hundreds of games that cover a wide range of themes within the game and we want to make these games accessible in a simple, easy to use manner, so that every coach can see the benefit of using games in their training sessions.