Parents in Sport Week: 4 - 10 Oct 21

Parents in Sport Week 2020 takes place 4 - 10 October 2021. Run by the NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU), Parents in Sport Week aims to highlight the important role parents play in youth sport.

At British Weight Lifting parents play a huge role in helping the development of young weightlifters. 

This year's campaign focuses on giving parents the information and tools you need to be part of the bigger safeguarding picture in sport.

They have loads of great resources for parents to help skill you up on keeping your child safe in sport.

A new animation for parents

They have developed a new animation for parents on what abuse might look like in sport and how to get help.

 

E-learning course

The CPSU have designed this course to help you understand your role in keeping children safe in sport and to let you know who to turn to if you have any worries. The course is free to take and is suitable for any parent of a child who takes part in sport, regardless of your level of safeguarding knowledge. It should take you around 10 minutes to complete. 

Click here for e-learning course

 

A new look parents’ hub

The hub contains lots of information which parents can use as a one-stop shop for safeguarding children including a YouTube video on ‘How to keep kids safe on social media’ and a featured podcast on ‘Parent’s grass-roots involvement in sport’.

Click here to go to the hub

 

Are you a Coach or Sports Club?

You can find further information on engaging with parents on their parents in sport topic page. 

These pages will help sports organisations to raise awareness with their coaches of the crucial role a parent has in helping a child reach their full potential. They've also produced a number of resources for clubs to use when providing messages to parents, as well as to their own coaches.

These include short videos on:

·       Positive parents – messages for sports clubs

·       How can coaches work in partnership with parents?

Click here to go to the Coach and Sports Club page

 

For more information on Parents in Sport week click here.

British Weight Lifting is committed to promoting the safety and welfare of adults, adults at risk, children and young people engaged in the sport at all levels and ensuring everyone will be treated fairly and equally. To view our Parents / Carers Code of Conduct click here. To visit our safeguarding page click here.