Summer is a busy time for sport and physical activity with clubs and providers getting ready for summer holiday camps and events, preparing for the start of a new season and working to attract more young people to their sport for the new school year.
Here’s a roundup of some new developments at the CPSU beyond.
Photography
Do you want to use the good weather to get some great outdoor shots of young people having a fantastic time in sport?
We’ve updated our hugely popular guidelines for using photography and video in sport. Our updated resources include everything you need to know about using photography and filming safely to promote your club and organisation.
There’s information on taking photos, storing images and video, live events and livestreaming. There’s also lots of brilliant resources, including the all-importanttemplate photography and filming policyfor you to create your own policy and photography and filming consent form to help you get everyone’s permission.
Photography and filming in sport
CPSU podcast
Our podcast is an easy way to develop your knowledge and tools to safeguard children in sport and to shape a healthier and safer athletic community.
In May we released the fifth and final part of our series on online safety, with youth worker, researcher and HeadStart Kernow's Louisa Street talking about how to keep children and young people safe online. Previous episodes covered social media, sharing images online, cyberbullying and building resilience.
Our next podcast episode, on safeguarding for community sport and physical activity, is due to be released soon.
Upcoming training
We have spaces in these three training courses running through the summer:
- Safer Sports Events – for anyone with safeguarding responsibilities at sports events including those from education establishments, leisure facilities, community groups, charities and sports clubs | 3 July/20 Aug
- Designated Safeguarding Lead for Sport and Leisure – one-day course to help the designated safeguarding lead (DSL) in any sport, leisure or physical activity organisation feel confident and competent in their role | 17 July/13 Aug
- Safeguarding for Management Board Members - half-day training course covering everything a board member in sports, leisure or physical activity organisations need to know about safeguarding children | 31 July/10 Sept
Book safeguarding in sport training
Safe Sport report
The Safe Sport report was published on 24 June and distributed to sports across the country by the five UK Sports Councils. It calls for a bold new approach to ensure the safety of everyone involved in sport at all levels across the UK.
The report has five recommendations:
- organisations should adopt a set of design principles for a comprehensive and integrated safe sport system and culture
- develop and implement a clear framework for safe sport across the UK
- establish a new independent UK body to provide leadership and coordination for safe sport
- establish an independent complaint and resolution function across the UK
- review of all current funding and delivery into safe sport to ensure it’s having the maximum effect and is coordinated
The next step is to appoint a Safe Sport Oversight Group and executive team to turn the recommendations into reality.
Read the Safe Sport report (download from UK Sport website)
Safeguarding in out of school settings
As parents across the country sign their children up for holiday clubs, the government has turned its attention to safeguarding in clubs and venues outside schools.
The Department for Education is calling for evidence to help shape future safeguarding policy for the Out-of-School Settings (OOSS) sector, which includes sports clubs, holiday camps and activity centres.
They are particularly interested in hearing from parents and carers, children, local authorities and any other organisations with safeguarding responsibilities or an interest or role in safeguarding children.
You can read the call for evidence and share your views in a OOSS online survey.
Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport 2025
We’re preparing for our annual Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport campaign. This year’s campaign runs from 6 to 12 October 2025 and we’re asking sports parents to play their part and talk to their children about how they can bring out their best through positive actions and support.
We want sports parents to consider how they show support before, during and after sport and we’re giving clubs, activity organisations and schools the resources and tools to help us get this message out to parents through their own communication channels.