Child Safety in Sport
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Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport is a national, year-round campaign run by the NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit to raise awareness of the important role parents play in keeping their child safe and happy in sport.
Keeping children safe in our sport is a priority for Triathlon Ireland. In order to support parents and coaches and young people we have the following free workshops planned over the next few weeks to help parents and coaches support young athletes.
The CPSU have this short video to help parents understand how to support young athletes
Workshops:
One Good Coach workshop: Thursday the 24th of October, 7pm -8pm
This short workshop is for coaches, leaders, parents, carers, club safeguarding personnel or any interested adult.
Topics covered include, understanding mental head and supporting and promoting young people's mental health, understanding your role as a coach and how participation in sport impacts mental health.
Register here (login to your TI account first)
Great Sports Parenting workshop: Wednesday the 3oth of October, 7.30pm-8.30pm
This short workshop is for parents, carers, club safeguarding personnel or any interested adult.
Topics covered include, asking great questions, using sport as a vehicle to build character, the car journey home.
Register here (login to your TI account first)
Get Involved:
All of our club childrens officers are volunteers, many of whom are parents. Club safeguarding personnel are integral to the club structure by ensuring safe recruitment of coaches and volunteers, safe practices at sessions and child centred environment in the club. The TI safeguarding team can help you to get trained up to be a Junior assistant in your club.
Keeping Children Safe:
One of the ways we are supporting parents to ensure their clubs are safe is by asking them to look out for our Safeguarding poster on their club website, socials or newsletter. This poster will provide key contacts in the club, links to policies and reporting contacts. Clubs will display this along with their Child Safeguarding Statement.
TI also has tips to support parents on our website here.
The new TI reporting protocol for concerns can be found here.
#SafeinSport
To find out more about being your child’s biggest supporter and how to get involved with the
campaign, visit https://thecpsu.org.uk/parents