Key ways Clubs use GMS
- Competition management – clubs register players and log 60,000 fixtures per year. Community game fixtures wouldn’t appear on EnglandRugby.com without the GMS platform.
- Safeguarding - individual DBS checks are initiated through GMS. This enables clubs to ensure all required people are DBS checked and identifies whose checks are current and whose will lapse shortly / have lapsed. The system is transferable when a volunteer moves clubs. Red flags can put be against profiles, making the game safer. Annual Safeguarding audits are also conducted across voting clubs via GMS to ensure compliance. (DBS stands for 'disclosure and barring service'. Previously known as CRB checks).
- Training courses - more are being booked on GMS than ever before as clubs use it to book coaching, match official, first aid and Kids First courses.
- Club coaching and refereeing reports - enable clubs to see who has attended each course, who are DBS checked and those coaches who have completed HEADCASE, Safeguarding and first aid courses.
- Player Affiliation - Allowing parents and players to take control of their information and data on the system, which allows for more accurate and up to date information as well as supporting club admins by reducing the work load.
- GMS has an ability to incorporate membership if clubs wish. More membership payments are being taken by clubs than ever before.
- Electronic Match Cards (EMC) - continue to be used across all RFU leagues. Despite the fact that most clubs haven’t used EMCs for 18 months, there continues to be a healthy completion rate across the country. In many leagues the completion of ‘match events’ is optional, however we hope the introduction of match centres, alongside league and players stats on Fixtures & Results on Englandrugby.com, will encourage greater uptake.