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News - In the past two years, almost 200 Romanian coaches have been trained to prevent the emotional, verbal or physical harm of children in a sports context.
For the past two years, the Terre des hommes Foundation has worked with the National Authority for the Rights of Persons…
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Online library - This manual created by Terre des hommes Romania and completed in 2021, is aimed at employees of sports clubs and camps and aims to promote safeguarding procedures (regarding the safety and protection of children) in sports and recreational environments.
This…
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News - Terre des hommes Romania and Creionetica Agency are launching an invitation for all children up to the age of 18 to draw in an artistic competition. The most original ideas for a logo that represents the idea of child safety in sports will be awarded. Drawings must be sent…
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Webinar - This webinar is organized within the 'Keeping Children Safe in Sports' project, which is funded by the 'Rights, Equality and Citizenship' program of the European Commission. The project is coordinated by Terre des hommes…
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Online library - The child safeguarding toolkit for European football has been developed by UEFA and Terre des hommes to help national associations take measures to protect and safeguard children from abuse and respond to any concerns. The toolkit recognises…
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News - Terre des hommes (Tdh) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) have joined efforts to develop a Europe-wide child safeguarding programme aimed at providing a safe and positive experience for all children and young people who play football. Today…
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News - The UEFA Foundation for Children was launched in April 2015 to support and defend children through football. The foundation provides several types of support, for example, giving children the opportunity to play…
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News - In October 2019, Terre des hommes launched a unique project aimed to promote child safeguarding policies in sports settings in Romania and Greece, in partnership with Tdh Hungary. Through this project, Tdh committed to ensuring that children and young people benefit from…
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Learning - This Level 1 Safeguarding Children course provides you with the knowledge and skills you need to safeguard children. It describes the common types of abuse, how to recognise them, and how to respond to your concerns. It also explains how to correctly report your concerns…
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Learning - The course will remind you how to identify abuse and report concerns as well as learn more about the safeguarding structure, recognising risks and what happens after a referral to social care has been made.
Developed by a qualified child protection professional…
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News - Children face violence and abuse everyday; every fourth girl in Jamaica and every fifth girl in Europe has been a victim of sexual harassment. Unfortunately, sport is one of the most common areas where violence against and abuse of children takes place.
Karen Madden…
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News - The “Start to Talk” campaign was launched by the Council of Europe to fight against the abuse of children in sports.
Sport is a good way to learn how to be resilient, how to cope with failures and how to be a team member, but it can create a relationship based on fear and…
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News - The article below was written by Maddie Grounds, content writer for the Immigration Advice Service, an organisation of immigration solicitors that help undocumented migrants to regulate their status in the UK.
The views expressed are that of the author and do not…
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News - Kupakwashe Desmond Mukurumbira, Board Member of UNICEF, has written a piece on key relationships in safeguarding in sports. It outlines seven key relationships which safeguarding in sport experts should understand, manage and develop for successful formulation and…
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News - The European week of sports celebrates its 5th edition this year; and 2019 brings a success story – after a long struggle with documentation, the first refugee in Greece got the official authorisation to play professional football. However, many of the…
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News - Soccer chief Gordon Taylor was told of horrific child abuse 20 years ago by a victim of football scout Eddie Heath, but wrote back telling him to ‘seek counselling’.
Non-recent child abuse, sometimes called historical abuse, is when an adult was abused as a child or young…
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News - Terre des hommes Moldova provided training on child protection systems and safeguarding policy in sports during a seminar for teachers, leaders, and coaches under the ‘Open Fun Football Schools’ (OFFS) project and ‘Sport - School – Police’ (SSP) project,…
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News - A report by Charles Geekie QC said chief scout Eddie Heath had groomed and attacked boys, aged 10 to 17, in the 1970s and it alleges that Chelesea officials must have "turned a blind eye to what they saw". Chelsea have now apologised “unreservedly” to young players who…
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News - BBC Sports reports that UEFA has contacted the Scottish FA about historic child sexual abuse. The SFA in turn has commissioned an independent review into the matter in 2017 which came back with 100 recommendations. UEFA made a statement that they fully trusted the SFA to…
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Online library - This is a toolkit developed by FIFA, for its member organisations in order to establish guiding principles and minimum rquirements that will help leaders and organisers in football to ensure a safe and nurturing environment for children. The toolkit is part of FIFA…
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News - Bob Higgins, 66, from Southampton, was found guilty last year of one count of indecent assault, and a further 45 counts in a retrial at Bournemouth Crown Court.
The trials heard that Higgins abused his position of power over young players to take advantage of them for his…
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News - The safeguarding framework is an overarching approach to safeguarding children in and through sport.
The framework incorporates: standards, support, progress and evaluation
The framework consists of five standards that a sports organisation should…
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News - Roman Bürki, Terre des hommes ambassador and goalkeeper of the German football club Borussia Dortmund, visited Romania from 22 to 24 May 2019 to get acquainted with Terre des hommes’ projects and to promote the need to keep children safe in sport.
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News - In early 2018, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and Terre des hommes (Tdh) launched a partnership aimed at strengthening UEFA's commitment to making football a safe, positive and enjoyable experience for all children across Europe.
Tdh is…
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Online library - Move Together project led to creating a community of practice that contributed to enhancing the necessary skills and knowledge in order to offer children and youngsters psych-social support with the help of sports and to raise their self-esteem and resilience.…
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Multimedia - The NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU) has launched a series of podcasts to share safeguarding guidance and best practice. The first 2 episodes have been released as part of Parents in Sport Week 2018, featuring sports parents and discussing how they…
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Online library - UNICEF has published a step-by-step guidance for businesses on how to set up their onw, internal child safeguarding policies, in order to ensure the safety and rights of children that come into contact wiht the organisation or its products and services.
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Multimedia - Sexual abuse happens in sport too. It is hard for children to talk. Video clip to call public authorities and the sport movement to give children a voice and stop child sexual abuse in sport. Produced by the Council of Europe with the support of the European Union in…
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Online library - Children Win is a global campaign co-ordinated by Terre des Hommes. Its mission is to ensure that child rights are protected, preserved and respected before, during and after the organisation and delivery of Mega Sporting Events (MSEs), and that…
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Online library - Start to talk” is a Council of Europe call for action to public authorities and the sport movement to stop child sexual abuse. By joining this call, governments, sport clubs, associations and federations, as well as athletes and coaches, pledge to take…
