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This is a sample role description for a chaperone responsible for protecting and looking after children in sport.

This template provides a role description for a lead safeguarding officer role in the context of protecting children in sport.

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

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.

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

Safer recruitment from start to finish, learn more about how to safely advertise, recruit, interview and onboard new staff and volunteers in your organisation.

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

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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.

Before recruiting to your chosen role, make sure you plan and prepare for the hiring process, so that your organisation's values and ethos is clear.

It's important to maintain a culture of vigilance and support once your new recruit is in post.

Key safeguarding roles and responsibilities There are various safeguarding roles in sport and physical activity depending on the organisation and context.

How to involve children and young people How you go about engaging and involving children and young people varies depending on the size of your organisation, your budget and how you want to include them.

This guidance highlights what you need to consider when recruiting chaperones to provide care for children and young people at training, events and competitions.

Our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for Sport and Leisure training is designed to give safeguarding leads the clarity, skills and confidence they need to recognise concerns early, respond appropriately and help create a culture where children can thrive.

In this podcast, we talk to the LTA about how they’ve developed and delivered on their last safeguarding strategy and what improvements it’s made to the experiences of young athletes in their sport.

The process of gathering and clarifying information about reported safeguarding concerns or incidents. Case management tool part 5 of 8.

The Disclosure and Barring Service have developed these leaflets for the sports sector on the eligibility of different roles based on levels of responsibility. 

Steps to take if a child goes missing at your sports event - sample procedure and flow chart.

Recruiting, training and supporting staff and volunteers It's important to recruit and train the right people to work with children and young people within your club, activity or organisation.