3.2 Applying your learning: comment

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Task 1

Identify people in your organisation who can understand and champion safeguarding, and external safeguarding experts who can support you.

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Within your organisation, it's important you connect with colleagues who interact regularly with children in sport. This can help you to identify those who are committed to the concept of safeguarding and keeping children safe. This can be a great place to start to build your internal network of safeguarding champions.

It’s important you also identify and engage with local experts on safeguarding. This could be Safeguarding Leads in other sports, or at sport for development organisations, or people in relevant government departments or non-government organisations that have a responsibility for promoting safeguarding and child protection. People like police officers, social workers or teachers may all have great insight that can help you in your role.

We hope you were able to make some good connections. They will help you begin to develop a network of support.

Next, you return to the course content by exploring the importance of your policies and procedures.

3.1 Introduction

3.3 Getting your policy formally approved