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Press release: Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week 2025. Top footballers, Gladiators star, an international swimmer and national sports governing bodies back NSPCC’s Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week.

October 2025: Places on this course are now available for designated safeguarding leads from any sport or leisure organisation to book.

November 2025: Places on this course are now available for designated safeguarding leads from any sport or leisure organisation to book.

December 2025: Places on this course are now available for designated safeguarding leads from any sport or leisure organisation to book.

Read about the impact of this year's campaign, alongside lessons learned and priorities for future years. 

Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport is our national campaign aimed at getting parents involved in their child's sporting life. For 2025, Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport will be taking place between 6 - 12 October 2025.

As we close the 2024/25 financial year, we are excited to share the progress we've made in safeguarding in sport and physical activity and the impact we've created together.

In June 2025 we ran our first ‘Safeguarding in the High-Performance System Forum’, developed in partnership with UK Sport and the Ann Craft Trust. 

Sports clubs across the UK urged to support NSPCC’s Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport campaign after almost 50% rise in Helpline contacts.

Download all campaign assets and resources that support the 2025 Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week - Play your part.

In this blog, Cerri talks about why it was important to bring young people into the conversation at the Wales Safeguarding Support Forum and hear from them directly.

9 October at 7:30pm - Join us for an insightful and practical webinar exploring the vital role of parental engagement in youth sport. Part of Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week.

Part of KYCSIS week, this webinar led by Gordon MacLelland explored the impact of parental engagement in shaping positive sporting experiences for young people.

Find out how your sport, club or organisation can support the next Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport campaign.

In this blog Graham Smith talks about some best practices to help you manage and safeguard your social media presence in sport effectively.

In this blog, we reflect on the lessons learned from the most recent CPSU podcast 'Safeguarding in sport and physical activity' and how it challenges us to move beyond paperwork and procedures, and to focus on what truly matters: people.

In this blog we introduce the topic of unconscious bias and our new webinar hosted by the NSPCC senior trainer Ineke Houtenbos.

Safeguarding leads in Wales explored the impact of gambling and of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) at this month’s Safeguarding Lead Support Forum in Cardiff.

Read about the recent Sport Welfare Officer (SWO) Network away day, and how the network can support your sport organisation.

What better way to celebrate National Safeguarding Week in Wales, than bringing together people from across the nation’s sports to share their expertise on keeping children safe?