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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

In this blog Samantha Lawrence talks about learning from the latest NSPCC CPSU podcast episode to keep children and young people safe online in sport. 

In this blog, Joe, talks about the role the NSPCC Helpline can play in supporting staff and volunteers running holiday activities this summer.  

Read our latest blog, describing how planning this year’s Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week has been a journey — one filled with collaboration, flexibility, and a deep sense of purpose. 

We’ve updated our Parent's Hub information, advice and guidance to help parents better understand what makes a good club — especially when it comes to competitions.

Learn more about how our safeguarding consultants work with system partners in England to strengthen safeguarding in sport. 

A blog written by Samantha Lawrence at the CPSU on why tackling online gender-based violence in sport is important to her as a mum. 

Here are our top tips to help you create a safe, positive environment for children this Christmas holidays. Use our checklist and key contact numbers.