Safeguarding Adults Week: Safeguarding Adults in our Sports Clubs

We’re so pleased to invite you to our interactive evening for sports clubs in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and Durham during Safeguarding Adults Week.

We’re told that safeguarding is for everyone and that everybody has a responsibility to play in safeguarding – but we focus much of our attention on children and young people. You may well be a junior only club – but all of our clubs have adults in them! From our volunteers, to coaches, and parents/ guardians – every club will have adults as integral members of the club community.

Do you know what to do if you have a concern for one of the adults in your clubs?

We’ll be joined by our local Safeguarding Adults teams who will take us through realistic sport specific examples and together we’ll explore what we’d do in each situation. We’ll look at safeguarding in different environments, including changing facilities and spectator areas, and we’ll discuss how signs of abuse such as financial abuse, coercion and control, discrimination, inappropriate boundaries and changes in behaviour present in sport.

This is a great opportunity to increase your awareness and confidence in keeping the adults in your sports club safe.

This is a FREE event and please click ‘select tickets’ to book your place. Gateshead Leisure Centre is an accessible venue and refreshments will be provided.

This event has been organised as part of the support offer for sports clubs through the Sport Welfare Officer network.