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Yorkshire RFU came up with an unusual – and effective – way to address the problem of coaches and spectators shouting during games.

Parents play a vital role in youth sport. This guidance aims to help coaches understand, support and educate parents, thereby enhancing parental involvement.

This guidance provides coaches with helpful strategies to follow to improve and manage potential issues between coaches and parents and build a good relationship.

Competitions can be emotional for children, parents and coaches, so ensuring that feedback is well-timed and delivered appropriately is very important. 

Useful guidance for parents that provides tips for how to support and encourage their child/children positively when participating in sport.

This briefing provides guidance on the appropriate use of physical contact between adults and young people in sports activities.

This briefing defines abuse of trust within a sports context, outlines relevant legislation and highlights recommended best practice.

This briefing recommends best safeguarding practice for sports organisations that involve participants from mixed age groups.

This briefing offers guidance on appropriate staffing and supervision ratios of adults to participants when planning and running sports activities.

This briefing provides an insight into the ways unsuitable people seek positions working directly with children, in order to groom them for abuse, and how sports organisations can prevent this.