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Boards should ensure that effective safeguarding frameworks are in place and that staff and volunteers are sufficiently trained on their safeguarding responsibilities. While processes and education will assist in mitigating the likelihood of a safeguarding incident, the impact will always be high.

There are a number of core policies and procedures that organisations must have in place.

Many sports and other organisations are not well enough informed to ensure that complaints and concerns about adults are properly identified and acted upon, which puts them at risk of failing to meet their duty of care.

Child protection is part of the safeguarding children process, protecting individual children identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. This includes the child protection procedures which detail how to respond to concerns about a child.

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Information on starting the ESG conversation, embedding it in your organisation's decision making, or taking it to the next level.

Speak the language of ESG with the help of this glossary of key terms.

Get to grips with the basics of ESG - what does it mean and what sort of issues does it cover?

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