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Specialist safeguarding training for the sports sector

For those with lead responsibility in safeguarding or safe recruitment


This training is for club welfare officers, regional/national lead officers, and those responsible for the safe recruitment of new staff and volunteers: 


Time To Listen 

For those with lead or deputising roles in safeguarding.


Risk assessment in recruitment

A workshop for those responsible for safe recruitment in their sports organisation.


Time to Listen


The CPSU has developed Time To Listen (TTL), a training programme specifically for people who have a designated role in child protection within a sports setting.

TTL is a training course designed to equip designated persons at various levels within sporting organisations to fulfil their safeguarding responsibilities to children. The training was reviewed and updated in 2009 and is delivered at three levels: club, county/regional and national level.

TTL training is only available to those who have already attended recognised basic awareness training as outlined in the guidance document:

Roles, skills, knowledge and competencies for safeguarding and protecting children in the sports sector: guidance document (PDF, 476KB) (CPSU, December 2007).


Training at club-level


At club level, TTL training consists of a three or four hour sport-specific workshop delivered by the NGB’s own trainers. See TTL training for club welfare officers.

The following sports NGBs have tutors who have been orientated by the CPSU to deliver the NSPCC Time to Listen training:

  • Amateur Rowing Association 
  • Amateur Swimming Association
  • British Canoe Union 
  • British Gymnastics
  • English Table Tennis Assocaition
  • Royal Yachting Association
  • England Netball
  • England Hockey
  • UK Athletics
The following sports NGB’s deliver club welfare officer training that has been recognised as equivalent to the NSPCC Time To Listen training:

  • Rugby Football Union
  • The Football Association
 

Training at regional/national level


At national/regional level, training for welfare/lead officers is delivered by the Child Protection in Sport Unit: 

TTL training for county/regional welfare officer

TTL training for national lead officers



Time to Listen training in Northern Ireland


The Time to Listen course is known as Taking Time to Listen and is delivered by SportNI.



Further information about TTL and who to contact


For further information on how our TTL training is organised, see our FAQs on TTL training or contact the Child Protection in Sport Unit.

For further details about how to access Time to Listen training in your particular sport contact the lead child protection officer of your national sports governing body. Search for your national sports governing body.

  

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Risk Assessment in Recruitment


The CPSU also deliver a Risk Assessment in Recruitment Workshop, to enable organisations to make safer recruitment decisions for staff and volunteers working with children and young people.

This workshop is currently only available to staff or volunteers in NGBs, or County Sports Partnerships with responsibility for risk-assessing CRB disclosure information as part of recruitment decisions in those organisation.

The workshop seeks to enable participants to:

  • understand where CRB/AccessNI disclosures sit within a safe recruitment process

  • understand how information arises on an CRB/AccessNI disclosure

  • understand what type of information arises on a CRB/AccessNI disclosure

  • identify a process and basis for making defensible decisions about an applicant’s potential risk following receipt of positive CRB/AccessNI disclosure information

  • clarify when and how to seek specialist support in undertaking risk assessments

  • undertake practical activities to consolidate this learning.

For more information and future dates for this workshop please contact the Child Protection in Sport Unit

 

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NSPCC Training

Courses and resources for anyone working to safeguard children and young people in the UK.

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