7.8 Summary of Session 7

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A young female person shouting into a megaphone.

The main learning and messages from this session are:
  1. Large competitions present additional challenges for organisers, and safeguarding needs to be embedded in planning from the outset.
  2. Everyone involved in a competition (including participating teams, support organisations, venues or courses, and those providing services) has a role to play in safeguarding and needs to understand their responsibilities.
  3. A Competition Safeguarding Manager, a network of other safeguarding staff, and a clear competition safeguarding plan, policies and procedures, provide the basis for holding a safe competition.
  4. Communicating safeguarding information including about how to recognise and report a concern is essential.
  5. Coordination between different stakeholder groups is essential for the correct management of concerns.

7.7 Responding to concerns

7.9 Course conclusion