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The Scottish Standards for Child Wellbeing and Protection in Sport supports organisations to create a culture of safeguarding and protecting children. 

Working together to safeguard children, statutory guidance on inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Dec 2021 Revised. UK Sport and Sport England have published a new Code for Sports Governance. Its policies and processes cover the crucial safeguarding elements needed for a well-run organisation.

Use this sample job description as a template to assist you when recruiting for a club welfare officer role.

This template provides a sample job description for a lead safeguarding officer role in the context of protecting children in sport.

A sample job description for a regional or county safeguarding officer role, which you can use as a template when recruiting.

Is your organisation doing everything it could be to keep children and young people safe in sport? These online self-assessment tools will help you find out.

This simple-to-use checklist has been developed to support organisations using external providers to offer sport and physical activity delivery for children and young people.

These safeguards outline what should be put in place by any organisation providing sports activities to children and young people.

A sample missing children at sports events procedure from the NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit.