World Athletics has this week released the safeguarding essentials training course for athletes protection.
The course which was released in seven different languages is aimed at creating awareness on why safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility as well as creating a safe and welcoming environment at all levels of the sport where everyone involved is respected, valued and protected.
The release of the Safeguarding Essentials training course follows the launch of the World Athletics Safeguarding Policy in 2021 and Safeguarding Rules approved by the World Athletics Council in August.
WA President Sebastian Coe said: “Since we launched the World Athletics Safeguarding Policy in 2021, we have known that we needed to provide a training course to help everyone in our sport understand the fundamentals of safeguarding and increase the awareness of all our community.
“Policy doesn’t work unless people understand it, implement it and care about it. Knowing what safeguarding looks like in athletics is the only way we can effectively embed it within our sport”.
“Safeguarding is more than just a line in our Integrity Code of Conduct. We need action, individually and collectively. We owe this to our athletes, competing now and into the future”, he added.
UNICEF, World Athletics and a number of other international federations are working on two additional and more advanced safeguarding training modules, which will be available in the first half of 2024.
As announced in 2021, every Member Federation must have its own safeguarding policy and procedures in place by the end of 2023.
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