Key info – talented and elite athletes
Our Help and Advice section has hub pages on specific safeguarding topics, which provide an overview, guidance and a list of resources. This page covers the specific factors that need to be considered when safeguarding talented and elite young athletes.
Creating a psychologically safe culture
Here are some key tips that organisations can follow to create a culture of psychological safety and promote the wellbeing and performance of their athletes.
Supporting young athletes with anxiety
This guidance explores anxiety within a sports context, outlining possible signs and symptoms and what you should do if you suspect that a young person is struggling with an anxiety disorder.
Loneliness and mental health in sport
This webinar looks at how loneliness can be both a sign and symptom of mental ill health in children and young people, and what sports clubs and organisations can do to tackle loneliness.
Creating safer cultures in sport – Learning from lived experience
In this podcast, we talk with former professional footballer Paul Stewart about the impact that childhood abuse has had on him and how to create a safer culture in sport.
Body image, weight management and disordered eating in sport
In this podcast mini series, we'll talk with Dr Carolyn Plateau we'll be talking about disordered eating and eating disorders in sport.
Learning from lived experience of childhood sexual abuse
In this podcast, we talk with former swimmer Karen Leach about her experience of childhood sexual abuse and what we can learn from it to keep children safe in sport.
A journey to better safeguarding with the LTA
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.
Safeguarding the child athlete in sport
This article informs those in the sports sector about the recommendations resulting from a review of athlete welfare in elite sport.
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