SAFE SPORT ALLIES -Safeguarding children from violence and abuse in local sport clubs

The goal of the project is to combat psychological, physical and sexual violence, and proactively safeguard children in sport,  through development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a bystander intervention that will allow athletes, parents, coaches and managers to adequately react to child abuse in sport.

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Safeguarding children from violence and abuse in local sport clubs. Safe Sport Allies is a collaborative partnership between three sport organisations, two universities and one research center, one international child protection agency, one safe sport practice developer and one survivor led organisation from different European countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Spain, Cyprus and Romania) and complementary background, tradition, experience and expertise in safeguarding policies in and outside sport.

This project aims to combat psychological, physical and sexual violence, and proactively safeguard children in sport, through the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a bystander intervention that will allow athletes, parents, coaches and managers to adequately react to child abuse in sport.

The bystander intervention will increase awareness, knowledge, skills, self-efficacy and capacity of relevant actors in youth sport clubs to challenge harmful social norms and behaviours as well as promoting positive, healthy ones.

By longitudinally testing the effectiveness on behaviour change of these actors, this project also delivers a sound methodology to test interventions aiming at safeguarding children in sport organisations.

Project implementation started in 2021. 

Partners implementing the project: Thomas More (BE), Center Ethicsin Sport (BE), Mulier Institute (NL), De Stilte Verbroken (NL), Athletic Club Foundation (ES), Finnish Olympic Committee (FIN), Terre des hommes Romania and Cyprus Sport Organisation (CY)

Co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union

Erasmus + Programme of the European Union