Child Protection In Sport Case Study

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Touching as part of coaching in sport is not prohibited. It’s important to consider that occasionally physical contact is unavoidable, or even essential. Imagine for example, a child that you are coaching is at risk of injuring or causing an accident, it would then be reasonable for the coach to step in and attempt to prevent that from happening. Nevertheless, physical contact in sport should always be proportionate, appropriate, sensitive and respectful, it should never be a surprise. Children should never be subject to any contact which could be interpreted as sexual. Sections 16 to 19 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 makes it an offence for an individual aged 18 or over to intentionally behave in a sexual manner towards a child aged under 18, where in individual is in a position of trust . This legislation currently only applies to individuals working in the public sector, which could consequently prove problematic. Additionally the government is very reluctant to …show more content…

It makes provision for the protection of children at risk. It imposes specific duties on local authorities to investigate where they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering or is likely to suffer significant harm . But it does not provide for protection of children in sport. Despite this Child protection in sport has become a more forefront matter in recent years due to the founding of the Child Protection in Sport Unit, an alliance between the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Sport England, Sport Northern Ireland, and Sport Wales. Whilst in Scotland there is a comparable partnership between Children 1st and sportscotland . The CPSU project has devised a document ‘Standards for Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sports’. These standards provided a national criterion of good practise for sports organisations everywhere to strive to

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