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.
Implementing an unaccompanied child policy
There are 4 key considerations for facility operators to bear in mind when developing safeguarding arrangements.
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.
The NSPCC helpline is a free service available to adults to seek advice or report safeguarding concerns. The service is open to all adults, including parents and professionals.
Key considerations for involving children and young people
Young people’s right to be involved
Particularly in decisions that will involve or impact on them.
Building and embedding safeguards
Creating safeguarding plan
Using an effective safeguarding plan enables clubs, activities and organisations to meet their safeguarding responsibilities by setting out the work being done to make activities safer for everyone.
Active partnerships (formerly CSPs)
Introduction
There are 43 active partnerships across England (formerly known as county sports partnerships), which work collaboratively with local partners to increase participation in sport and physical activity.
Responding to and reporting concerns
It is not the responsibility of anyone working in a club, activity or organisation to decide whether or not child abuse has taken place.
There are many possible outcomes of a case management process. Each case needs to be considered to assess the most suitable outcome. Case management tool part 7 of 8.
Using a safeguarding communication plan will help you to ensure that the people across your organisation or sports activity are aware of the safeguarding work taking place and understand their own role in keeping children safe.