The GuardSport Project: Research Driven Sport Specific Safeguarding
The GuardSport Project aims to create a community of informed practitioners. A learning space and resource that provides up to date Safeguarding and Child Protection information.
The GuardSport project aims to bridge the gap between policy and community awareness.
Consistent and regular Safeguarding communication is vital for creating a safeguarding culture.
Whether you are a club or an individual we hope that GuardSport can support your safeguarding need.
One of the most important aspects of building a robust safeguarding culture is building a safeguarding learning environment that draws important lessons from safeguarding cases, incidents, reports and interventions.
GuardSport provides access to Safeguarding policy from all major sports and sporting bodies as well as up to date case reviews and inquests.
The safeguarding in sport culture creates an environment where any safeguarding cases, concerns and issues raised are dealt with in a way that meets the best safeguarding in sport practices and standards.
The GuardSport Project:
The GuardSport project is a social enterprise designed to close the gap between Safeguarding policy and Safeguarding culture.
GuardSport aims to have as many clubs and sporting organisations signed up and committed to distributing regular sports safeguarding practice, information and updates.
Safeguarding and Child protection is everyone’s responsibility! Regular community updates and reminders are a cornerstone of creating a safeguarding culture.
Traditional child protection approaches have a focus on individual(s) harmer or victim of abuse, but contextual safeguarding recognises the importance of looking at the social and environmental factors that contribute to harm. In sports we can do so much better.
A policy is only ever as good as its implementation. It’s the Safeguarding culture and the acceptance that it is everyones responsibility that makes the difference.
GuardSport will provide you with regular updates that you can distribute through your sporting organisation on social media or via email. updates will come every 2 weeks.
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How we can help and what do we do:
Training & Consultancy:
Access a range of training and case support options for your club or institution. Contact for details.
Policy, Research access & shared space:
Completely free access to collated safeguarding policies and research. if you have something to contribute to this space please let us know.
The GuardSport project Communication bundle:
Building a safeguarding culture depends on regular community engagement and communication. GuardSport can provide the tools to make this happen including a bank of scenarios to help develop your understanding.
