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Leisure sector safeguarding checklist

Topics: Safeguarding standards Community and school sports Type: Forms

A safeguarding checklist to support the leisure industry to meet their safeguarding responsibilities for both children and adults.

Responding to information about possible risks to children

Topics: Case management Type: Best practice

Guidance to help sports clubs and organisations risk assess any safeguarding concerns around the membership of people with criminal records. This briefing paper highlights what needs to be done to ensure decisions made are fair and safe.

How can sport safeguard children?

Topics: Safeguarding standards Duty of care Type: Video & audio

This short animation shows the difference between child protection and safeguarding in a sports setting and looks in more depth at how children and young people can be further protected beyond their time at training sessions.

Pool lifeguards and DBS eligibility

Topics: Safe recruitment Type: Best practice

This briefing outlines a consistent approach to decisions about the eligibility of pool lifeguards for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.

A journey to better safeguarding with the LTA

Topics: Athlete wellbeing Elite athletes Type: Video & audio

In this podcast, we talk to the LTA about how they’ve developed and delivered on their last safeguarding strategy and what improvements it’s made to the experiences of young athletes in their sport.

Online safety – training scenarios

Topics: Online safety Type: Video & audio

You can use these scenarios with staff and volunteers in your sport to identify any gaps in knowledge when dealing with online safety concerns.

Event safeguarding checklist

Topics: Trips, events and travel Type: Forms

A planning checklist for sports organisations to ensure they meet all their safeguarding requirements when running events and activities for children and young people.

Accident reporting form

Topics: Duty of care Case management Type: Forms

An accident-reporting form template and procedure to be followed by a club or organisation in the event of an accident.

Incident reporting form

Topics: Duty of care Case management Type: Forms

A CPSU template you can use to create your own incident reporting form.

Photography and video consent form template

Topics: Photographing children Type: Forms

A template that sports organisations can use to create their own photography and filming consent form.