Resource library

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

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.

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.

A CPSU webinar in conjunction with the IWF and Marie Collins Foundation, exploring the ways in which sports organisations can promote a new Home Office campaign about the laws on viewing indecent images online. 

This report, published in April 2017, followed a review of the Duty of Care that sport has towards participants. The review was led by Baraness Tannie Grey-Thompson. 

This briefing outlines the issues arising from bad weather conditions prior to and during an event, which assist in your decision-making.

A template safeguarding policy statement for organisations to use and adapt to make it clear to staff, parents and children what you will do to keep children safe.

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

A template form for sports organisations to use when contacting the references provided by an applicant for a role working with young people.

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.