Resource library

Thousands of children take part in martial arts – and its popularity is expanding at an incredible rate. So it's critical to get safeguarding and child protection right.

The charter aims to influence the sports sector to support athletes' mental wellbeing and change the stigma around mental health. 

This factsheet provides guidance outlines how sports can work in partnership with disabled athlete’s parents and carers.

Use this model for parents workshops from Welsh Gymnastics to set-up regular meetings with parents and develop better relationships. 

This briefing provides a definition of homophobic and transphobic bullying, statistics and recommendations for how to prevent and respond to incidents.

Start to talk is an international campaign highlighting why children can’t talk about sexual violence in sport and why adults need to take action.

Good-practice guidance from the NHS on heat health. It lists risks and actions to consider when planning sports events.

This guidance advises sports organisations on the types of procedures they should have in place to respond to reports of non-recent abuse in sport. 

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

This display poster provides a good example of how to highlight the key points of a social media policy to participants and spectators.