Safeguarding Advice Guidance & Resources

Safeguarding Policy and Guidance

Please see the following links and resources for further information on Safeguarding Policy

• Welsh Government Code of Safeguarding Practice
• Retention of Safeguarding Data
• NSPCC Child Protection in Sport
• 60703-NSPCC-Wales-Sports-Club-Lealfets_BILINGUAL-PROOF.pdf
• Sport Wales Coaching Policy
• UK Government Safeguarding Policy
• Duty of Care in Sport – Independent Report to UK Government (Tanni Grey Thompson report)
• DBS Checks in Sport – Working with Children (official DBS guidance)
• DBS Checks in Sport – Working with Adults (official DBS guidance)
• Guidance for DBS Checks in Sport – Working with Adults (Ann Craft Trust)
• Guidance on Photography and Video of Children in Sport (Child Protection in Sport Unit)
• Sunguarding
• Safeguarding Policy Statement Template
  • Safeguarding Policy Statement Template Guidance Notes

Statutory Services Safeguarding Contact Information

The below link contains the contact information for the safeguarding departments of statutory services, as well as contact details for further support.

In an emergency, always call 999.

• WSA Statutory Services Safeguarding Contact information

Safeguading Policy Template Example

• Safeguarding Policy Template Example 2023 – under review for 2025, please speak to WSA team before implementing.
• Safeguarding Policy Template Example – – under review for 2025, please speak to WSA team before implementing.

Social Media Codes of Conduct

• NSPCC Photography and Sharing Images Guidance
• NSPCC Photography and Filming Consent Form Template
• NSPCC Online Safety and Social Media Policy Template

Coaches, Committee Member, Players’ and Parents’ Code of Conduct:

• Club Solutions Code of Conduct Templates

Suggested Best Practice For Responding to Child Protection Issues, Complaints or Allegations Within a Sporting Setting:

• WSA-Safeguarding-Complaints-Procedures.docx

Children’s Human Rights & Sport event safeguarding resources

• Resources – Children’s Commissioner for Wales (childcomwales.org.uk)
• The Right Way – A Children’s Rights Approach – Children’s Commissioner for Wales (childcomwales.org.uk)
• TRW – one page summary_ENG.pdf (childcomwales.org.uk)
• The-Right-Way.pdf (childcomwales.org.uk)
• Child Protection in Sport Unit (thecpsu.org.uk)
• convention-rights-child-text-child-friendly-version.pdf (unicef.org)
• CRIA-template_ENG (8).pdf
• The-Right-Way-Simple-FINAL-1 (3).pdf
• Participation-how-what-why-FINALdocx (4).pdf

• Children’s Human Rights & Sport Summarising Paper

Please also find the recording of the Children’s Human Rights & Sport webinar (split into three parts) below:

• Part 1: TRW Training with SPF – Part 1.mp4 (dropbox.com)
• Part 2: TRW Training with SPF – Part 2.mp4 (dropbox.com)
• Part 3: TRW Training with SPF – Part 3.mp4 (dropbox.com)