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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.

Find out how your sport, club or organisation can support the next Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport campaign.

In this inspiring “Play Your Part” video, three real parents talk to their children about support in sport. Whether your child is just starting out or planning to make sport a career, it's always the right time to talk to your child, listen to what they say and learn how to play your part.

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

These parental behaviour scenarios can be used or adapted by clubs or sports organisations to help coaches and staff understand how they can tackle challenging parental involvement. 

A presentation template (in PowerPoint format) that you can show to parents to let them know how they can get positively involved in their child's sport. 

In this episode, Connor from the NSPCC Young Person's Board for Change interviews our safeguarding panel about how to build a collective culture of safety within sport.

This poster and video helps parents to ask the right questions when choosing a club for their child.

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

We are committed to protecting the integrity of the NSPCC brand. Find out how you can signpost to our services. 

This framework provides a set of standards of good practice for clubs in NI to work towards. These standards help organisations know what they need to do to protect children involved in sport, and to minimise avoidable risks.

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.

This guidance provides coaches with helpful strategies to follow to improve and manage potential issues between coaches and parents and build a good relationship.

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.

This webinar looks at the differences between banter and bullying, what sports organisations can do to manage banter and prevent bullying behaviour. 

The role that parents and carers play in their child’s sporting life is vital in helping them to thrive and to achieve their full sporting potential, whilst feeling safe and supported.

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This guidance outlines the appropriate use of physical contact between adults and young people in sports activities.