1. Safeguarding Adults in Sport
Nicola Dean
Safeguarding Adults in Sport Manager

2. Ann Craft Trust – ACTing against abuse
Established in 1992, and part of the University
of Nottingham, the Ann Craft Trust (ACT) is a national charity.
ACT works with staff in the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors in the interests of disabled children and adults who may be at risk of abuse.

3. ACT Services
In working towards safeguarding and protection, ACT provides the following services:
● Information and Advice
● Training, Consultancy, Seminars, Workshops and
Conferences
● Research, Publications and Books
● Membership
● Campaigns
● Serious Case Reviews

4. Safeguarding Children in Sport
NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit – founded in 2001
Sport Safeguarding Partnership – strategic group addressing safeguarding children in sport
Unicef - International Safeguards for Children in Sport launched 2014

5. What about safeguarding adults?
Safeguarding Adults in Sport Steering Group was founded in 2008
Representatives from across elite and grassroots sport including National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and County Sport Partnerships (CSPs)
ACT provides safeguarding advice

6. Safeguarding Adults in Sport Steering Group
Vision: Sport and recreation is an open, inclusive and safe environment for adults at risk
Mission: To embed the concept of safeguarding adults at risk in all sport and recreation organisations, so they have the tools, guidance and expertise to safeguard adults in sport and recreation.

7. Impact of the Care Act
Care Act placed safeguarding adults onto a statutory footing
Six key safeguarding adults principles including Partnership
2015 Sport England funded ACT for an 18 month post of Safeguarding Adults in Sport Manager
– Local solutions through services working with their communities. Communities have a part to play in preventing, detecting and reporting neglect and abuse

8. Sporting Future: A New Strategy for an Active Nation
‘A strategy that encourages everyone to be more active, to prioritise physical activity in their busy lives, to volunteer in sport and help play their part in driving the sporting economy should also set out how they will be looked after and protected’
This comes with a ‘Duty of Care’
Need to ensure ‘Safeguarding for children and people in a vulnerable situation’
HM Government December 2015
Government will establish an Independent Working Group on a new Duty of
Care for participants in sport. The group will be chaired by Baroness Tanni Grey-
Thompson and its terms of reference will be agreed and announced in early 2016,
with the aim of beginning its work in April 2016.
Still the old language of vulnerable adults rather than adults at risk

9. Safeguarding adults at risk in sport
Review and develop services in relation to adults at risk in sport
Identify, plan and implement new initiatives in line with current practice.
Develop and deliver a training strategy
Offer advice and information to sport and recreation organisations
Represent the sector at key consultations nationally.

10. Survey results - organisations

11. Survey results – who are the adults at risk in sport?

12. Survey results – awareness of legislation

13. Survey results – who has an adults at risk policy?

14. Survey results – Who has had safeguarding adults training?

15. Survey results – do you offer safeguarding adults training?

16. Survey results - Do you know who to go to make a safeguarding referral?

17. Survey results – Would you like safeguarding adults training?

18. Challenges Lack of understanding of legislation
Language of safeguarding adults
Lack of sport specific safeguarding adults training
Joint safeguarding adults and vulnerable adults policies and procedures
No buy in if not linked to funding
No standards for safeguarding adults in sport

19. What’s next? 2017-2021 increased funding from Sport England to ACT
Awareness raising within sport and safeguarding organisations– what is safeguarding adults in sport?
Safeguarding adults being linked to funding/ Duty of Care/ governance
Quality assurance/ standards for organisations
Resources and training
‘Sportify’ safeguarding adults

20. Ann Craft Trust – ACTing against abuse
Nicola Dean
Safeguarding Adults at Risk in Sport Manager
Ann Craft Trust
Centre for Social Work
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
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