The right safeguarding training for you will depend upon your role in your sport or activity, as well as your existing safeguarding experience and knowledge.
A variety of sport safeguarding training and learning is available to support staff and volunteers, which will develop their understanding and skills to safeguard children. Training courses may be elearning, tutor led in person or, online or, a combination of these options.
See our training grid for help selecting courses
Our training grid outlines suitable safeguarding training for different roles. If you’ve had safeguarding training before in a different role, you may still need to have sport specific training. This will depend on your previous experience, training, your role in the organisation and the procedures of your national governing body (NGB) if your sport or activity has one.
Choosing your training delivery method
Safeguarding training includes sensitive information where participants' values, assumptions and experiences can affect their interpretation of learning.
We’ve developed guidance on minimum safeguarding training standards for sports and physical activity providers, which helps to outline which training methods are required and why.
Safeguarding training plans
Safeguarding training plans make sure your workforce is accessing the relevant learning opportunities for them to feel confident in keeping children safe.
Training plans should include all of the safeguarding training across the organisation as well as any training for those that the organisation funds, for example holiday activity providers, or supports, for example local clubs.
Things to consider when creating your training plan.
- Conduct a training needs analysis (TNA)
- Confirm the safeguarding training requirements and recommendations of your organisation
- Read our guidance about the safeguarding training requirements of different roles
- Address how you will fill any gaps across the different roles
- Include both internal and external learning opportunities (training and continual professional development)
- Include how you will keep up to date on what your training needs are to reflect changes in the sector, legislation, case reviews and so on
- Is there a mechanism to highlight when training needs to be updated across the workforce?
- Add opportunities to identify training needs in inductions and appraisals