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Supporting young athletes with anxiety

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.

Sample mental health and wellbeing statement

You can adapt this mental health and wellbeing sample statement to support your sports organisation's existing safeguarding policies and to demonstrate your commitment to protecting young people’s mental health and wellbeing.

Loneliness and mental health in sport

This webinar looks at how loneliness can be both a sign and symptom of mental ill health in children and young people, and what sports clubs and organisations can do to tackle loneliness.

Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation

The charter aims to influence the sports sector to support athletes' mental wellbeing and change the stigma around mental health.

Key info – mental health and wellbeing

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 support the wellbeing of club members and create a mentally healthy and safe environment.

Creating a psychologically safe culture

Here are some key tips that organisations can follow to create a culture of psychological safety and promote the wellbeing and performance of their athletes.

Standards for Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport (Scotland)

The Scottish Standards for Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport supports organisations to create a culture of safeguarding and protecting children.

Addressing self-harming behaviour

This briefing provides guidance for sports organisations about addressing self-harming behaviour and provides links to specialist support services.

Addressing suicidal thoughts and feelings

This briefing provides guidance on how sports organisations can address suicidal thoughts and feelings and provides links to specialist support services.

Heatwave advice

Good-practice guidance from the NHS on heat health. It lists risks and actions to consider when planning sports events.

Body image, weight management and disordered eating in sport

In this podcast mini series, we'll talk with Dr Carolyn Plateau we'll be talking about disordered eating and eating disorders in sport.

The basics of safeguarding

In this podcast, we discuss what safeguards sports clubs and organisations should have in place to create a safe environment for all children and young people.

Eating disorders and disordered eating in sport

A recorded webinar on eating disorders and disordered eating in young people in sport. It looks at ways of identifying and managing potential eating problems.

Safe sport events, activities and competitions

This resource will help you to meet the safeguarding responsibilities for your event and to promote the wellbeing of all the young participants, volunteers and officials.

The impact of social media use on young athletes' body image

In this podcast episode, we talk to Swim England about the impact that social media can have on young people's body image and what changes sport can make to ensure that their wellbeing is supported online.

Building a collective culture of safety

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.

Chaperone – job description template

This is a sample job description for a chaperone responsible for protectiing and looking after children in sport.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and why this matters in sport

This webinar looks at what Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are, the effects this has on the developing brain and how sport can help overcome toxic stress.

Sport England – Uniting the Movement

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.

Protecting children from grooming and sexual abuse

Advice about reducing the risk of the grooming process taking place to prevent children from being sexually harmed.