How can you get involved in your child's sports club?
Parental feedback, support and behaviour all play a vital role in a child's enjoyment and experience of sport. This guidance for parents provides tips for how to support and encourage your child and become positively involved in their sporting experience.
Promoting positive parental involvement – PowerPoint template
A presentation template (in PowerPoint format) that you can show to parents to let them know how they can get positively involved in their child's sport.
Creating effective safeguarding plans
A video presentation about creating effective safeguarding plans
Heatwave advice
Good-practice guidance from the NHS on heat health. It lists risks and actions to consider when planning sports events.
Safeguarding plan template
This template safeguarding plan can be adapted for use by your organisation or club.
Safeguarding investigator – job description template
This guidance details the purpose, knowledge and skills required for an Investigator role. An investigation is required as part of a sport's organisations safeguarding and child protection case management process.
Top tips for getting parents involved in your club
This A4 poster has been designed to reach out to coaches and clubs with top tips on how to get started when it comes to involving parents in sport.
Preventing abuse in positions of trust in sport and activity
These briefing papers explain positions of trust in sport and dance and outline the legislation which was updated in June 2022 in response to the NSPCC's Close the Loophole campaign.
Away day trips
This briefing highlights things that should be considered when taking children and young people away on trips – such as travel, ratios and insurance.
Club welfare officer – job description template
Use this sample job description as a template to assist you when recruiting for a club welfare officer role.