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Supervising children's sport and activities

Topics: Supervision ratio Type: Best practice

This briefing provides guidance about arranging appropriate supervision ratios for children's sporting activities. Use our supervision calculator to help you plan.

Digital app risk assessment tool

Topics: Online safety Type: Tools

Use our checking tool to help you decide if a digital app or platform is suitable for your sports organisation. Helps you assess risks and can support decision-making. 

Set up a sensory room at an event

Topics: Deaf and disabled children Trips, events and travel Type: Best practice

Creating a relaxed area for children and young people to go to can help make your event more inclusive.

Writing a sport safeguarding plan

Topics: Safeguarding framework Type: Best practice

Learn how to write a safeguarding plan, also known as a safeguarding action plan or implementation plan, which will help you and your organisation to deliver your safeguarding responsibilities.  

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.