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Press release: Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week 2025. Top footballers, Gladiators star, an international swimmer and national sports governing bodies back NSPCC’s Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week.

Part of KYCSIS week, this webinar led by Gordon MacLelland explored the impact of parental engagement in shaping positive sporting experiences for young people.

Read about the impact of this year's campaign, alongside lessons learned and priorities for future years. 

Learn more about how our safeguarding consultants work with system partners in England to strengthen safeguarding in sport. 

Read about the recent Sport Welfare Officer (SWO) Network away day, and how the network can support your sport organisation.

In this blog, we reflect on the lessons learned from our Safeguarding in sport and physical activity podcast and how it challenges us to move beyond paperwork and procedures, and to focus on what truly matters: people.

In this blog we talk about why neuroinclusive sport matters, using people's strengths, why safeguarding leads need to be aware of this and practical tips.

Sport is still a positive place for children – and more adults are contacting our Helpline to keep it that way. Read about the latest insight from NSPCC Helpline.

Read our latest blog, describing how planning this year’s Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week has been a journey — one filled with collaboration, flexibility, and a deep sense of purpose. 

In this blog we introduce the topic of unconscious bias and our new webinar hosted by the NSPCC senior trainer Ineke Houtenbos.

Celebrating 25 years of safeguarding children in sport, with a name change to ‘NSPCC Sport'.  

Artificial Intelligence is being used more in youth sports, learn more about how use AI responsibly in your organisation.

A blog written by Samantha Lawrence at the CPSU on why tackling online gender-based violence in sport is important to her as a mum. 

In June 2025 we ran our first ‘Safeguarding in the High-Performance System Forum’, developed in partnership with UK Sport and the Ann Craft Trust. 

In this blog Graham Smith talks about some best practices to help you manage and safeguard your social media presence in sport effectively.

In this blog Samantha Lawrence talks about learning from the latest NSPCC CPSU podcast episode to keep children and young people safe online in sport. 

The NSPCC is releasing new data as it renames its sport safeguarding service, NSPCC Sport, formerly the Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU).

We have released our 2025/2026 annual review, demonstrating progress in youth sports safeguarding across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

We’ve updated our Parent's Hub information, advice and guidance to help parents better understand what makes a good club — especially when it comes to competitions.

Sports clubs across the UK urged to support NSPCC’s Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport campaign after almost 50% rise in Helpline contacts.