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A template form for sports organisations to use when contacting the references provided by an applicant for a role working with young people.

This briefing highlights things that should be considered when taking children and young people away on trips – such as travel, ratios and insurance.

This guidance outline what safeguards should be in place at all organisation providing sports activities for children and young people.

Keeping children and young people safe on social media and online platforms with the NSPCC online safety team.

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.

How adults can support children and young people in reducing harm and building digital resilience in the online world. Samantha Lawrence and Louisa Street explore.

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.

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 briefing provides guidance on how to safeguard children and young people when they are using changing facilities, and includes recommended levels of adult supervision and examples of changing room policies.

A child’s behaviour might be challenging for a reason, understanding why a child's behaviour may be difficult will help you to support them better.

See our photography and filming policy for advice on how to help take and share images within your organisation.

A risk-assessment template to help you identify the risks and implement appropriate controls to help ensure a safe environment at your activity.

A template role description for a chaperone responsible for protecting and looking after children in sport.

Advice about reducing the risk of the grooming process taking place to prevent children from being sexually harmed.

A template and sample safeguarding policy statement for sports and physical activity organisations to use and adapt. Outlines what the organisation will do to keep children safe.

Guidance to help sports clubs and organisations risk assess any safeguarding concerns around the membership of people with criminal records, including what needs to be done to ensure decisions made are fair and safe.

We talk about the new legislation which makes it illegal for someone in a position of trust in sports to have a sexual relationship with someone aged 16-17 in their care.

This template policy gives organisations guidelines they should outline to protect children and young people online.

A form to use when a child goes missing or is found alone at a sports event.

Minimum safeguarding training standards ensure compliance, competency and consistency in your organisation.