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This online tool will help you to ensure that you meet the safeguarding responsibilities for your sports event, from playing in a local park up to representing their country.

Acceptable use statement templates for online platforms. For organisations to help make all aware of their policies on acceptable behaviour when using devices, online platforms and the Internet. 

Sport England - Uniting the Movement. A 10-year strategy, launched in 2021 with a vision to transform lives and communities through sport and physical activity.

The purpose of this briefing paper is to clarify what an organisation's duty of care entails, and to provide some guidance as to what steps can be taken in order to demonstrate that this duty is being met.

This leaflet can be used by clubs to inform coaches how to work with parents more effectively. 

Download a free NSPCC poster, especially designed for sports clubs and leisure centres to highlight how you can contact the NSPCC helpline with your concerns.

Parents can use this leaflet to help choose the right club or activity for their child. It lists the safeguards that sports bodies should have in place to keep children safe.

This briefing paper will help you understand your safeguarding roles and responsibilities when working or volunteering at a sporting event. 

In this podcast we speak to Helen and Linda from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) about the different levels of check available, who's eligible and how checks are carried out.

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.

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.

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.

Learn how to write a safeguarding plan, also known as a safeguarding action plan or implementation plan, which will help you and your organisation to deliver your safeguarding responsibilities.  

In this video, children describe how parents' and spectators' behaviour impacts their game and how this affects them.

This briefing outlines a consistent approach to decisions about the eligibility of pool lifeguards for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.

This framework provides a set of standards of good practice for clubs in NI to work towards. These standards help organisations know what they need to do to protect children involved in sport, and to minimise avoidable risks.

You can use these scenarios with staff and volunteers in your sport to identify any gaps in knowledge when dealing with online safety concerns. 

Thousands of children take part in martial arts – and its popularity is expanding at an incredible rate. So it's critical to get safeguarding and child protection right.

Safeguarding guidance for sports organisations and clubs on online teaching and coaching to help them stay in touch with teams and club members during the coronavirus pandemic.