What safeguarding means, and why football needs it

Module 9: Safeguarding children in football

Lesson one sets out the language: what a child is, what safeguarding and child protection mean, the forms abuse takes, and why football, like any sport, carries particular risks.

In this lesson

• Safeguarding and child protection
• The forms abuse takes
• The scale of the problem
• Risks and protections in sport
• Where the risk is highest