This briefing provides guidance on how to safeguard children and young people when they are using changing facilities, and includes recommended levels of adult supervision and examples of changing room policies.
Third-party use of facilities
There are a few key points to consider when determining supervision levels and responsibilities for third-party users of facilities.
This short animation has been produced as part of our Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport campaign launch to introduce the campaign and what parents should do to keep their child safe.
Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport is our national campaign aimed at getting parents involved in their child's sporting life. Each October, we run a focus week to raise awareness of parents' critical role in safeguarding their children in sport.
The following resources and guidance should prove useful in ensuring that sport and leisure facilities are properly safeguarded for use by children and young people.
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.
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.
This publication from Nacro guides National Governing Bodies through the process of making safe and fair membership decisions about those with criminal records.
This flowchart has been developed to support safe event planning for level-3 School Games. The information is intended to complement the detailed guidance, Safe sports events, activities and competitions (SSE).
This flowchart has been developed to support safe event planning for inter-school competition (level 2). The information is intended to complement the detailed guidance, Safe sport events, activities and competitions (SSE).
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.