Terre des hommes

Awareness-raising is the activity of informing and educating as many people as possible about a topic; in our case, about child and youth safeguarding in football. Through the dissemination of the awareness-raising materials, we wish to improve general understanding of the topic as well as to mobilise everyone to bring about the necessary changes in attitudes and behaviour. We also wish to empower those working with children and young people in football activities to protect their rights, and help prevent and respond to any form of harm or abuse.

"Children need us to keep them safe while they do sports" - this is the message of the campaign carried out by Terre des hommes in Romania, within the European project Keeping Children Safe in Sports.

Terre des hommes, together with its partners - the Romanian Football Federation and the Romanian Gymnastics Federation - and with the official support of the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of the Child and Adoption (Romania) aims to improve the standards on child protection in sport.

The Turkish Football Federation translated the Child safeguarding toolkit for UEFA member associations. You can download the document here or below. The toolkit was developed by UEFA and Terre des hommes to help UEFA member associations protect and safeguard children from abuse and respond to any concerns. 

Das Toolkit zum Kinderschutz im europäischen Fußball wurde von der UEFA und Terre des hommes entwickelt, um die UEFA-Mitgliedsverbände dabei zu unterstützen, Kinder vor Missbrauch zu schützen und auf auftretende Bedenken angemessen zu reagieren. Dieses Toolkit beruht auf der Annahme, dass viele Nationalverbände bereits entsprechende Richtlinien, Verfahren und Schulungen eingeführt haben. Ferner wurde es auf der Grundlage umfassender Konsultationen mit den jeweiligen Nationalverbänden und ausgewiesenen Fachleuten entwickelt.

The child safeguarding toolkit for European football was developed by UEFA and Terre des hommes to help UEFA member associations protect and safeguard children from abuse and respond to any concerns. The toolkit recognises that many national associations have already introduced good policies, procedures and training, and builds on extensive consultation with those national associations and experts in the field.