This toolkit is designed for National Governing Bodies (NGBs), sports clubs, academies, leisure providers, sporting charities, talent pathways, competition organisers, and sport and physical activity organisations seeking to strengthen safeguarding and participant welfare arrangements.

The toolkit provides a structured safeguarding assurance framework tailored to the sport sector, helping organisations evaluate safeguarding effectiveness, participant welfare arrangements, governance oversight, and organisational culture.

It supports organisations to:

• Strengthen safeguarding and participant welfare arrangements
• Evaluate safeguarding culture across sporting environments
• Support governance, board, and committee oversight
• Identify safeguarding risks and welfare concerns
• Improve confidence in safeguarding systems and reporting processes
• Develop clear improvement priorities and action plans
• Demonstrate safeguarding assurance to governing bodies, stakeholders, and partners

What’s Included?

• Comprehensive Safeguarding Assurance Guidance Manual
• 12-Domain Safeguarding Audit Framework
• Audit Dashboard and Assurance Summary
• RAG Rating Methodology
• Governance and Assurance Reporting Tools
• Participant Safeguarding Feedback Survey
• Safeguarding Walkabout Observation Tool
• Safeguarding Supervision Template
• Action Planning and Priority Tracking Tools
• Evidence Log and Supporting Documents Checklist
• Improvement Planning Framework

A detailed safeguarding and participant welfare assurance review that helps organisations identify strengths, evidence good practice, manage risk, and continuously improve safeguarding across sporting activities, programmes, events, and environments.