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The digital world is rapidly evolving – here, we highlight sport-specific resources for safeguarding children online, and point you towards the parts of the NSPCC website where you can keep up with what you need to know about online safety.

Details of upcoming webinars, and webinar recordings and resources from our past online events.

How do you safely advertise, recruit, interview and onboard your new staff and volunteers? Learn more about safer recruitment processes and procedures from start to finish.

Find out about the Safe in Sport volunteer programme and join us as a valued volunteer.  

In this blog we hear from our colleague, Joe Cartwright, about his experience at the Game Safe Festival 2024.

This webinar looks at sexual offending and the grooming and entrapment process and what that means in the sporting environment. 

The FA has produced a video detailing the reporting process for anyone worried about a child in youth football.

Creating a safe environment can help keep children safer online whilst keeping in touch and staying up to date with your organisation.

This NSPCC report compiles and analyses the most robust and up-to-date child protection data that exists across the four nations in the UK for 2020.

NSPCC's Child Protection in Sport Unit offers advice and resources to help you improve safeguarding for sport and leisure facilities.

Communicating the safeguarding plan to others  Once you have a signed-off safeguarding plan, you need to make sure the people across your organisation are aware of the safeguarding work taking place and understand their own role in keeping children safe.

The following resources may be useful in developing and implementing a safe photography policy.

These briefing papers explain positions of trust in sport and dance and outline the legislation which was updated in June 2022 in response to the NSPCC's Close the Loophole campaign.

Active partnerships (formerly CSPs) Introduction There are 43 active partnerships across England (formerly known as county sports partnerships), which work with local partners to increase participation in sport and physical activity.

Meet the CPSU team Laura Whapham Commercial Business Manager Laura joined the CPSU team in 2011.

The impact of bullying in sport Bullying behaviours can cause negative experiences for children and young people taking part in sport.

Listen to our latest podcast and find out more about previous CPSU podcasts.

What have we achieved in 2024/25? Our latest impact report highlights our headline achievements and the progress we have made towards reaching our aim to support the sport and physical activity sector to create a caring culture where children and young people are safe and thrive in sport.

The correct safeguarding training for you will depend upon your role within sport, as well as your existing safeguarding experience and knowledge. These pages cover what you need to know to choose the right training.

A wide range of resources are available to help safeguard talented and elite young athletes – we list some of the most useful resources here.