I'm sure I'm not the only one on here that coaches mini or youth football. As qccfc said, we are DBS (used to be CRB) checked and there is plenty of help and advice from the FAW who are great. The parents of our lads are generally a great bunch, but I have recently become more conscious of how they may view you and, as silly as it may seem, I am probably more wary of helping kids on and off with bibs, gloves, tieing boot laces etc as you always hear about inappropriate touching and so on.

I don't have to spend any time alone with the kids as the parents are always at training and matches, but I think would be a bit reluctant to give lifts or whatever on my own. It's a sad state of affairs but I just don't think it would be worth putting yourself in any potentially compromising position.