Guide to Safeguarding Children in Sport

These UEFA guidelines set out competition-specific child and youth protection guidance for event organisers, event child safeguarding leads and/or child and youth protection officers when staging competitions and/or events with the participation of…

20 Nov 2023

On World Children’s Day, 20 November 2023, UEFA published its Competition-specific Child and Youth Protection Guidelines. Football competitions include larger number of children and young people at different levels. Adults may need to take…

05 Jun 2023

On the occasion of International Children’s Day, marked on 1 June, the Lithuanian version of UEFA’s child safeguarding courses, prepared by the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF), have been launched. UEFA, in collaboration with Terre des…

31 Mar 2023

On 31 March 2023, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) presented its first Protocol for the protection of children and adolescents. The board of directors chaired by Luis Rubiales has approved, in its last session, a text that aims to make…

09 Feb 2023

On 9 February 2023, the Albanian Football Association (AFA) and Terre des hommes Albania (Tdh) signed a cooperation agreement in the field of child protection in football, in line with UEFA's initiative to develop national child protection…