Using Sport to Provide Safe Spaces for Young People - webinar invite

Sport is increasingly playing a valuable role in providing young people with access to a physically safe space in their own local community and an emotionally safe space when supervised by sport practitioners as trusted adults.

You are invited to attend a webinar which will provide academic insight for policymakers and practitioners about the role of sport as a safe space for vulnerable young people. It will cover the following important areas:

• The importance of safe spaces for young people that go beyond physical safety.
• Young people’s views of a space as being safe or unsafe
• The features of a safe space for young people and strategies for creating safe spaces.
• The role of sport for creating a safe space and the benefits that it can provide for young people.
• The use of the public health approach in identifying the role that different types of sport programmes and interventions can play in providing a safe space.
• The importance of contextual safeguarding

This webinar will be delivered by Dr Caron Walpole, Loughborough University and Graham Helm, StreetGames, on:-

When: Thursday 13^th March 2025

Time: 10am-11:30am

Where: Online via Teams

 Attendees will also receive a newly published literature review to accompany this webinar.

 To register a place, please click: Safe Spaces in Sport Webinar