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Recruiting chaperones

Topics: Safe recruitment Supervision ratio Trips, events and travel Type: Best practice

This guidance highlights what you need to consider when recruiting chaperones to provide care for children and young people at training, events and competitions.

Tackling online gender-based violence (GBV)

Topics: Online safety Tackling Inequalities Type: Best practice

Learn how we can tackle online gender-based violence in grassroot and elite sport. 

Managing weather related risks at events

Topics: Trips, events and travel Type: Best practice

Advice about reducing the risks posed by unexpected or adverse weather conditions at children's sports and activities.

5 questions to ask your child's sports club

Topics: Parents in sport Safeguarding standards Type: Publications

This poster and video helps parents to ask the right questions when choosing a club for their child.

Taking photos of children in sport - explainer video

Topics: Photographing children Type: Video & audio

An introduction to photographing and filming children in sport safely, including how to go about creating a photography policy, what you are allowed to do and what you should be doing. 

Learning from the Sheldon Report

Topics: Duty of care Type: Best practice

The Sheldon Report investigated non-recent child sexual abuse in football. It was commissioned by the FA after survivors came forward in 2016 and includes recommendations for football, but are applicable to all sports.

Bullying incident report form

Topics: Anti-bullying Type: Forms

Our bullying incident report form can be used as a template for your own form to ensure you record everything necessary.

New starter induction checklist

Topics: Safe recruitment Type: Forms

An induction checklist to help a new starter / volunteer settle in as soon as possible.

Reference form for positions working with children

Topics: Safe recruitment Type: Forms

A template form for sports organisations to use when contacting the references provided by an applicant for a role working with young people.

Preventing bullying in sport

Topics: Anti-bullying Type: Video & audio

In this video, we explore the key risk factors that contribute to bullying in sport environments and the protective strategies that can help prevent it.