UEFA online course: Child safeguarding for coaches
We acknowledge the key role that coaches play in safeguarding children. This specialised course will help coaches to enhance their knowledge and improve child safeguarding practices.
Coaches
Child safeguarding policies and procedures [English Football Association]
A collection of documents that constitute the FA safeguarding policies and procedures, including:
- Affiliated Football's Safeguarding Policy and Procedures
- Grassroots Safeguarding Children Policy and Procedures
- Template - Clun Safeguarding Children Policy Procedures
- The FA Anti-Bullying Policy for Cluns
- County Witnesses Guide to Personal Hearings
- Match Officials Guide to Personal Hearings
- Player and Club Guide to Personal Hearings
Article: Child abuse, child protection, and defensive "touch" in PE teaching and sports coaching
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Article: Coaches, sexual harassment and education
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Case Study: Disclosure of Sexual Abuse in Sport Organisations
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Article: Telling (dangerous) stories, a narrative account of a youth coach’s experience of an unfounded allegation of child abuse
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Literature Review: Sexual Violence Against Children in Sports and Exercise
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Sexual violence against children in sports receives little research attention. The aim of this Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses-based systematic literature review was to synthesize the up-to-date knowledge and identify the already known and the still unknown information in this area. The literature search yielded seven eligible studies for inclusion.
Start to Talk online platform [Council of Europe]
"Start to talk” is a Council of Europe call for action to public authorities and the sport movement to stop child sexual abuse. By joining this call, governments, sport clubs, associations and federations, as well as athletes and coaches, pledge to take concrete measures to prevent and respond to abuse.
Start to Talk - Call for Action against Sexual exploitation and abuse [Council of Europe]
Sexual abuse happens in sport too. It is hard for children to talk. Video clip to call public authorities and the sport movement to give children a voice and stop child sexual abuse in sport. Produced by the Council of Europe with the support of the European Union in the framework of ProSafeSport . starttotalk.org
Video: My magic sports kit [NSPCC]
'It's our game, not yours'
This video shows several children involved in different sports describing how the behaviour of parents and spectators deteriorates when they wear their ‘magic sports kit’ – that is, when they compete.
The young people talk about a range of bad adult behaviours and how these negatively affect them. They then describe and promote positive behaviour.