What is Adult Safeguarding in Sport?

Adult safeguarding involves empowering and enabling adults, including those at risk of harm, to manage their own health and well-being, and to keep themselves safe. It extends to intervening to protect where harm has occurred or is likely to occur and promoting access to justice. All adults at risk should be central to any actions and decisions affecting their lives.

Adult safeguarding in sport therefore means promoting the rights of all adults involved in sport, preventing harm to adults, intervening where an adult is at risk of harm, and protecting where harm has occurred.

Everyone has the right to be safe in sport and taking part should be fun and enjoyable for all adults. Safeguarding adults in sport is essential in developing a safe and inclusive environment.