This document provides guidance for a unit on safeguarding and protecting children and young people in sport and active leisure. It outlines the learning outcomes which include understanding the foundations of safeguarding, implementing key safeguarding principles, recognizing signs of abuse, and responding to reports of abuse. The guidance instructs tutors to utilize various teaching methods and resources to support student understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures. Students are advised to actively participate in lessons, complete assessments, and develop knowledge of indicators and appropriate responses to potential abuse situations.

1. Unit 202
Safeguarding and protecting children and young people in sport and active
leisure
Tutor Guidance
1. Explain the unit outcomes and check understanding.
2. Present students with unit assessments and processes for submission.
3. Utilise the PowerPoint to support lesson delivery, and student understanding.
4. Allow for students to record lesson information to support them in their assessment.
5. Consolidate after each lesson.
6. Link theory lesson outcomes with practical delivery.
7. Consolidate and link the practical and theory aspects with the unit outcomes and assessment.
8. Utilise any and all resources to support and deliver the unit outcomes for example – quizzes,
risk assessments, health and safety checklist, injuries in football, video clips.
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2. Unit 202
Safeguarding and protecting children and young people in sport and active
leisure
Student Guidance
1. Review the unit standards, on Blackboard.
2. Access unit assessment from Blackboard.
3. Save assessment in your documents.
4. Take part within group discussions.
5. Record notes/ findings from both practical and theory lessons.
6. Ask questions, to establish understanding.
7. Take active role within practical lessons.
8. Clear submission date and procedure.
9. Clearly read the assessment requirements for example, prepare a presentation, write a report,
produce a leaflet.
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3. Unit 202
Safeguarding and protecting children and
young people in sport and active leisure
Unit aim
This unit is designed to provide the essential knowledge and understanding for those working with
children and young people in sporting environments and is aimed at coaches, recreational
assistants, exercise and fitness instructors, personal trainers, sports leaders etc.
Learning outcomes
There are four learning outcomes to this unit. The learner will be able to:
202.1: Know the foundations of safeguarding and protecting children and young people
202.2: Understand how to implement key principles of safeguarding children and young people in
sport and active leisure
202.3: Understand how to recognise indicators of abuse and neglect
202.4: Understand how to respond to reports or suspicion of child abuse and neglect
Guided learning hours
It is recommended that 10 hours should be allocated for this unit. This may be on a full-time or parttime
basis.
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4. ‘Know why they are there’
The greatest
discovery of
my generation
is that a
human being
can alter his
life by altering
his attitudes
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5. Outcome 1 Know the foundations of safeguarding and
protecting children and young people
Assessment Criteria
The learner can:
1. describe what is meant by safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of
children
2. identify the principles that underpin work to safeguard and protect children and
young people in sport and active leisure
3. describe what constitutes good working practice for the safeguarding and protecting
of children and young people in sport and active leisure.
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6. Outcome 1 Know the foundations of safeguarding and
protecting children and young people
Range
Principles
• Children and young people have a right to enjoy sport, free from all forms of abuse
and exploitation.
• All children and young people have equal rights to protection from harm.
• All children and young people should be encouraged to fulfil their potential and
inequalities should be challenged.
• Everybody has a responsibility to support the care and protection of children.
• Sporting organisations have a duty of care to children and young people who take
part in sport.
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7. Outcome 1 Know the foundations of safeguarding and
protecting children and young people
Range
Good working practice
• Putting the welfare of performers first
• Treating everyone fairly
• Working in an open environment
• Maintaining a safe distance from performers and refraining from intimacy (including
sharing a room)
• Avoid spending time alone with children away from others – never offer a child a lift
home
• Building coaching relationships based on trust
• Promoting fair play
• Being an excellent role model
• Involving parents or carers
• Giving enthusiastic feedback and avoiding negative criticism.
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8. A good manager can, at best, make a team 10%
better. But a bad manager can make a team up to
50% worse
Giovanni Trapattoni
“It's not one thing we do 100% better than anyone else,
but 100 things we do 1% better than everyone else.”
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9. Outcome 3 Understand how to recognise indicators of abuse
and neglect
Assessment Criteria
The learner can:
1. identify the different types of child abuse or neglect
2. identify the indicators of child abuse or neglect
3. explain how to be alert to potential indicators of child abuse or neglect
4. explain how to be alert to risks which individual abusers, or potential abusers may
pose to children.
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10. Outcome 3 Understand how to recognise indicators of abuse
and neglect
Range
Types
Physical, emotional, neglect, sexual, bullying and harassment.
Indicators
Become withdrawn, develop low esteem and lack of confidence, develop behavioural
(aggression), experience school related issues (loss of concentration, non-attendance),
suffer depression, selfharm (in extreme circumstances can cause death), suffer injury,
pain
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11. You don’t have to
have been a horse
to become a good
jockey
Be ‘there’ to help
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12. Outcome 4 - Understand how to respond to reports or suspicion
of child abuse and neglect
Underpinning knowledge
The learner can:
1. describe what to do when concerned that a child may be being abused or that someone
may pose a risk to a child or children generally
2. explain the importance of sharing information regarding child abuse and neglect
3. explain the importance of maintaining confidentiality in relation to child abuse and
neglect
4. describe the procedure to respond to a report of child abuse and neglect
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13. Outcome 4 - Understand how to respond to reports or suspicion
of child abuse and neglect
Underpinning knowledge
The learner can:
5. describe what to do when experiencing barriers to reporting child abuse and neglect.
6. identify organisational policies and procedures for safeguarding and protecting children
and young people in sport and active leisure.
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14. Identify, then manage the differences
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15. Working Together
• build on best practice
• recognise signs and identify what behaviour causes concern
• identify the actions to take and who can help
• develop your action plan for change
• everyone is equal, all contributions are valid and valued
• respect and the importance of listening
• confidentiality
• anonymity
• open-mindedness
• ownership
• challenging ‘isms’ and discriminatory behaviour
• willingness to contribute
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16. Best Practice
Group Discussion
1. identifying best practice
2. identifying areas to develop in football
3. starting your action plan for change
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17. What is Poor Practice? What is Abuse?
Group Discussion
1. recognising poor practice and forms of abuse
2. recognising signs and indicators of poor practice and abuse
3. identifying what behaviour in football would give you cause for concern
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18. CONTINUUM OF PRACTICE
BEST
PRACTICE
POOR
PRACTICE
ABUSE
Neglect
Physical abuse
Sexual abuse
Emotional abuse
Bullying
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19. Neglect
Includes situations in which adults:
• fail to ensure children/young people are safe or expose them to undue extremes of
weather or risk of injury (e.g. through unsafe equipment)
• fail to meet a child’s/young person’s basic physical needs (e.g. for food, warm
clothing)
• consistently leave children or young people alone or unsupervised.
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20. Physical Abuse
Includes situations where people deliberately:
• use excessive and inappropriate training methods
• physically hurt or injure children/young people or knowingly do not prevent such
injuries (eg. by hitting, shaking, squeezing, biting, burning)
• give children/young people inappropriate drugs or poison or fail to supervise their
access to these substances
• attempt to suffocate or drown children/young people.
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21. Emotional Abuse
Includes situations in which people:
• frequently taunt, criticise, bully or pressurise children/young people to perform to
high expectations or to attain standards that they are clearly not able to reach
• show a persistent lack of love, affection or attention
• show constant overprotection preventing children/young people from socialising.
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22. Bullying
Includes situations in which people deliberately:
• physically abuse (e.g. hit, strike, kick or steal)
• verbally abuse (e.g. make racist, sexist or homophobic remarks, threaten or other
name calling)
• emotionally abuse (e.g. isolate a player in training or playing)
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23. sudden changes in
behaviour e.g. withdrawn
Typical signs
of abuse
loss of weight for
no apparent reason
unexplained
bruising
or injuries
a change observed
over a long period
of time
sexually explicit
language/actions
something a
child
has said
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24. What to do about Poor Practice or Abuse
• identify why children do not tell others about poor practice or abuse
• describe action to take if concerned about the welfare of a young person
• describe action to take if a child/young person discloses information to you about
possible poor practice or abuse.
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25. WHY CHILDREN WON’T TELL
feel powerless and not in
control
they don’t know
what to say or how
to say it
unaware they are
being abused
think won’t be believed
feel ashamed and
feel think it’s their
fault
made to feel
special through
bribes and gifts
people don’t listen
to them
adults sometimes
make excuses for
other adults’
behaviour
may have been
threatened and so
scared to tell
Why?
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26. If a Child Tells you…..
React calmly and
• ensure the immediate safety of the child
• reassure the child and take what they say seriously
• don’t make promises not to tell
• keep questions to a minimum – use them to clarify what you have been told
• make a full record of what was said, seen or heard
• follow advice from your club s designated person and report your concerns on to the
designated person or direct to Children’s Services or the Police if you feel the child is in
danger or at risk
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27. NSPCC HELPLINE
0808 800 5000
The NSPCC Helpline is a free, 24-hour
service which provides advice to anyone
worried about a child.
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28. Reflection
1. reflect on what you learnt or experienced
2. reflect on your current practice
3. develop your action plan for change
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