Grassroots Technology Support Hub
Change online consent from 5 years to one year
Claire Davidson
(From Surrey FA Discipline Roadshow/Northumberland Football Leagues/TJFA)
5 year consent is adding additional administration burden for leagues as teams are not removing pending actions for players before submitting the information to the leagues for approval.
As parents do not often log into the Portal, they do not automatically remove consent if the player moves to a different club
Totally agree with this. The 5 year consent is a farce. Clubs just register last seasons players even though those players want to play for other teams. The new team then tries to register the player and can't, so the league have to spend time digging around, message the registered club to find out if the player have given consent or not for the current season.
Needs to be done yearly.
For grassroots football to run you need volunteers, however with this sort of policy in place a volunteers time is being wasted and will end up in them walking away.
Kev
Norfolk Sunday Football League Secretary
I agree that online consent should only be for one season. This is an important point for the registration process.
Registration has to be renewed every season. It is therefore illogical that online consent should endure for 5 years. I am surprised that the FA allow this. This functionality on the portal for player registration should be changed by the grassroots technology team.
In my league, we have a player registration form that the players have to complete every season. The club is then expected to use offline consent. However, if by mistake they have previously used online consent, it is not possible to select offline consent (that button is ‘greyed out’ on the page) because of the enduring 5 year online consent.
This needs to be changed please !
Thanks,
Michael
SMCCFL Secretary
from a club perspecive, I don't agree. It's hard enough each season to get parents for new players to do the online consent once. Having it for 5 years is a saving grace otherwise each club would have hundreds to re-rerequest every season.
Pending actions take place BEFORE submission to the league, a player can have consent for multiple clubs, so I am not sure what the issue is. But I appreciate I am not viewing from a league persepctive.
Hi,
I respond having read Jon's reply......
I should have said in my first post that I am the Secretary of an adult/open age league, so we don't have the issue of needing parents to the consent on behalf of the players.
If online consent lasting for 5 years is seen as a benefit that some leagues would like to retain, then my updated suggestion/request to the FA would be to give us the functionality so that if online consent has previously been given, the club secretary is able to revoke this and then select offline consent. Or just simply: being able to select offline consent even if online consent has previously been given, which would then revoke the online consent.
As Jon writes, a player can have consents and registrations for more than one club and team. So, like Jon don't understand Kevin's concern with that aspect.
Michael