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Use our checking tool to help you decide if a digital app or platform is suitable for your sports organisation. Helps you assess risks and can support decision-making.

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

This guidance can help you carry out a training needs analysis (TNA) for your organisation or sports activity. 

Deaf and disabled children are particularly vulnerable to abuse. This briefing provides guidance on how to recognise and respond to concerns about the welfare of a child.

A resource to help sports organisations to positively and meaningfully engage with people who have lived experience of childhood abuse.

In this podcast, we discuss the benefits of listening to children and young people with Rugby Football League (RFL) and find out more their listening club initiative.

This guidance discusses the additional considerations that should be in place when going on overnight trips or travelling internationally with children and 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.

Better understand how you can help to promote the recording and reporting of lower-level concerns in your organisation.

The Sheldon Report investigated non-recent child sexual abuse in football. It was commissioned by the FA after survivors came forward in 2016 and includes recommendations for football, but are applicable to all sports.

This safeguarding reporting-procedure flowchart provide guidance for National Governing Bodies and affiliated sport organisations on reporting concerns.

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

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

This template details the purpose, knowledge and skills required for an Investigator role. An investigation is required as part of a sport's organisations safeguarding and child protection case management process.

A template that sports organisations can use to create their own photography and filming consent form.

This guidance describes the knowledge and skills required for a Board safeguarding champion. 

Running events in public spaces can present a variety of additional safeguarding challenges, including security and photography. This briefing will help your organisation identify and address potential issues.

An accident-reporting form template and procedure to be followed by a club or organisation in the event of an accident.

Best practice for adults when transporting children to and from sporting activities.

The report of the Whyte Review into mistreatment within gymnastics.