Resources

This factsheet helps children aged 7 to 12 years understand your key rights – in your everyday life and when you take part in sport. 

This factsheet covers how you should be treated and what to do if you don’t feel safe. 

This information is for children aged 7 to 12 years old, to help kids understand the Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy.

This information is for young people aged 13 to 17 years old. 

It helps you understand your sport’s Member Protection Policy.

Recruitment and screening processes are critical to attract the right staff and volunteers to your sport, especially when it comes to protecting children and young people. 

This factsheet provides tips and tools to help you attract the right people to child-facing roles, as well as a layer of checks to prevent you employing the wrong people.

This checklist was developed to help sports assess the suitability of an applicant who has applied for a child-related position within the organisation.

This checklist helps give organisation's safeguarding guidance to responsibly plan and run sporting events for children and young people in public spaces.

Use this checklist to follow the safeguarding practices sporting organisations should follow when organising day trips or competitions involving children and young people.

This checklist helps sporting organisations put in place child and young person safe practices when they need to stay overnight to participate in an event such as a training camp or tournament. 

Sporting organisations can use this form to get photography and filming consent to help safeguard children and young people.

The following Do’s and Don’ts guide has practical actions for anyone involved to follow in the delivery of programs, services or activities with children and young people participating in sport.