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

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)