Safeguarding & Protecting Children (Online Classroom)

“Safeguarding training provides you with guidance and scenarios to prompt you to reflect on what it means to be a child today, and to consider the impact and implications on your coaching practice”.

Safeguarding training is a minimum requirement to help those responsible for organising sport to carry out their role safely and effectively. The course is suitable for coaches, welfare officers, parents, and volunteers.

This interactive online classroom will help you recognise and respond to concerns a child may be experiencing, or be at risk of experiencing, harm, neglect, or abuse.

You will learn the importance of person-centred care and taking an individualised approach, that puts the child or young person at the heart of every session.

UK Coaching works in partnership with the NSPCC and CPSU to regularly review and develop the course content and materials to ensure the learning content, guidance and delivery is current.

Through interactive scenarios and discussions with people from different sports and activities, you will have the opportunity explore the consequences of those decisions in a safe and supportive environment, helping to increase your confidence to deal with safeguarding issues effectively and counteract the latest threats to emerge that could impact on the physical or mental health of children in modern Britain.

The course has been awarded 2 CPD points by the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA).

What does the course qualify me to do?

Completing the course helps you fulfil the requirements of becoming a BWL licenced coach or welfare officer.

Certificate of completion

After the course, you’ll be sent a certificate of completion from UK Coaching. Please upload this to your BWL membership profile.

Learners must be at least 18 years of age when booking, a member of BWL, and be able to communicate effectively in English.