YSF Safeguarding and Welfare News – June 2025

Buddle Active Bystander Video 

Back in March, the three of us had an amazing day at John Charles Centre for Sport with the fab team from Buddle. Along with some colleagues and friends, we were filmed talking about our experiences of racism and discrimination within sport, and what it means to be an ally and an active bystander. 

The video is now available on YouTube. Please take a look here and share it within your organisations and networks. 

If you’d like to know more about being an active bystander please get in touch. We’re delivering our free 90-minute in-person training widely across Yorkshire and the Humber, and the feedback we’re getting is overwhelmingly positive. Attendees have commented that the delivery is friendly and relaxed, and that the content is useful and easy to understand. Some attendees have contacted us afterwards to let us know that they’ve used what they learnt to deal with situations and incidents differently for a safer, more positive outcome. 

Read more about the story 

Sport Welfare Connect – 3 July 

Last call to book on to our quarterly safeguarding and welfare forum 

• Thursday 3 July 
• 6pm to 7.30pm 
• Online 
• Book a place

Our next Sport Welfare Connect networking session is themed around issues affecting young people. We’ll have a talk on vaping from The Base, and we’ll be looking at understanding behaviour and trauma awareness.  

What issues are affecting children and young people at your club or activity? Let us know in advance and we can look at including content on it in the session. 

Accreditation Process: 

Clubs can become officially recognised as "Asthma Friendly" by completing a 7-point charter, which includes: 

• Staff training 

• Asthma policy and register 

• Inhaler access and storage 

• Emergency inhaler availability 

• Communication protocols 

• Smoke-free commitment 

• Ongoing awareness and support 

If you're part of a club or organisation in South Yorkshire and want to get involved, you can find more information and register through the South Yorkshire Healthier Together website  

Safe Sport Report 

The five UK sports councils have published the Safe Sport report. Led by sport and for sport, the Safe Sport project and report emerged from a shared recognition of the challenges faced by the sport sector in keeping people safe. 

Download the report 

Safe Sport Day – 8 August 

Do you have any plans to promote Safe Sport Day within your club or organisation?

If so, we’d love to hear from you and can possibly feature what you’re doing in our July newsletter. Please get in touch and let us know.