Putting the safeguards into practice
How can you ensure that sport remains
both safe and fun for children and young people?
Millions of children and young people
take part in sporting activities every day across the world. For some
children this is purely for recreation, for others a chosen career
and for some a path out of poverty. But it is increasingly recognised
that too often sport fails to fully consider the risks to children,
leading to incidents of abuse and harm.
To ensure an organisation providing
sports activities to children and young people is doing all it can to
make sport safer for children, the following eight safeguards should
be put in place.
These safeguards represent collective
good practice at a point in time and will be subject to periodic
review to ensure they reflect developments within safeguarding
practice.
The eight safeguards are:
1. Developing your policy
2. Procedures for responding to
safeguarding concerns
3. Advice and support
4. Minimising risks to children
5. Guidelines for behaviour
6. Recruiting, training and
communicating
7. Working with partners
8. Monitoring and evaluating
View the full International Safeguards
for Children in Sport document.
The safeguards aim to:
- Help create a safe sporting environment for children wherever they participate and at whatever level
- Provide a benchmark to assist sports providers and funders to make informed decisions
- Promote good practice and challenge practice that is harmful to children
- Provide clarity on safeguarding children to all involved in sport
- Find out how to develop policies, practices and procedures to keep sport fun and children safe.
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