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This guidance highlights what safeguards you should have in place when involving young people in mixed age activities or sports.

Our Help and Advice section has hub pages on specific safeguarding topics, which provide an overview, guidance and a list of resources. This page will help you to understand the importance of involving children and young people and outline the practical steps that you can take.

In this podcast, we discuss the benefits of listening to children and young people with Rugby Football League (RFL) and find out more their listening club initiative.

This briefing provides an overview of harmful sexual behaviour in children and young people and recommends ways in which to address worrying behaviour.

Deaf and disabled children are particularly vulnerable to abuse. This briefing provides guidance on how to recognise and respond to concerns about the welfare of a child.

A CPSU webinar looking at young people in positions of trust in sport and the move from participant to a formal role. 

This briefing has been developed to help anyone planning to work with children and young people in drop-in activities.

This briefing provides guidance on the appropriate use of physical contact between adults and young people in sports activities.

In this episode, Connor from the NSPCC Young Person's Board for Change interviews our safeguarding panel about how to build a collective culture of safety within sport.

In this webinar, we consider why LGBTQ+ young people may be additionally vulnerable to abuse and explore how clubs can include and support them. 

In the second of our podcasts on parental involvement, we talk about the different situations and challenges parents of children in competitive sport face.

Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games athletes offer their advice to sports organisations, clubs and young people involved in sport.

A sample missing children at sports events procedure from the NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit.

Standards providing a framework for everyone involved in sport to help them create a safe sporting environment for children and young people and protect them from harm.

This short animation shows the difference between child protection and safeguarding in a sports setting and looks in more depth at how children and young people can be further protected beyond their time at training sessions.

This briefing offers guidance on appropriate staffing and supervision ratios of adults to participants when planning and running sports activities.

This research article defines overuse injuries and overtraining syndrome. It looks at how prevalent they are in sport and how to reduce the risks for young athletes.

A resource to help sports organisations to positively and meaningfully engage with people who have lived experience of childhood abuse.

This guidance explores anxiety within a sports context, outlining possible signs and symptoms and what you should do if you suspect that a young person is struggling with an anxiety disorder.

This briefing highlights best practice for adults when transporting children to and from sporting activities.