What is Safeguarding in Sport?

Melanie Lang; Michael Hartill

What is Safeguarding in Sport?

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Abstract

This chapter highlights the contemporary policy landscape of safeguarding in global sport beginning with a discussion of the extent to which the UK and other countries have shifted from a narrower, reactive child protection agenda towards the more holistic and proactive safeguarding agenda. It also discusses various approaches to safeguarding and protecting children in sport and international developments in this area.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Safeguarding, Child Protection and Abuse in Sport: International Perspectives in Research, Policy and Practice
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9780415829793
Publication status	Published - 2014

Publication series

Name	Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Keywords

safeguarding in sport
UK policy
youth sport

Access to Document

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415829793/

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