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    • Player care
    • Young people’s voices on safe sport
    • Athlete- and Coach-led education for teaching about abuse and neglect in sport
    • Child Abuse in Sport: European Statistics (CASES)
    • Gender-based violence in EU sport
    • Prevention of Sexual Violence in Sports
    • Sport Respects Your Rights
    • VOICE
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    • The Routledge Handbook of Athlete Welfare launch event – November 2020
    • Inaugural CPSS Conference – January 2020
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    • Waiving anonymity sexual abuse in football
    • Children’s voices in sport
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Centre for Child Protection and Safeguarding in Sport

Category: Projects

  • Academic expert to lead European funded study into child abuse in sport

    Edge Hill University Academic Mike Hartill, an expert in sexual abuse in sport, is leading European funded research into child abuse within sport.

    April 25, 2019

  • Keeping sport safe

    Keeping sport safe

    Against a background of high profile cases of child abuse in sport in the media, Edge Hill University is playing a major role in a new event to raise awareness and share research about exploitation in sport.

    August 22, 2018

  • Dr Mike Hartill has given sexual abuse victims a voice

    Dr Mike Hartill, Reader in the Sociology of Sport, initiated the EU-funded project ‘Voices for Truth and Dignity’ (VOICE) in 2015. The project, led by the German Sport University, Cologne, is a collaboration between seven European universities plus sport agencies and victim-support organisations.

    May 23, 2018

  • Edge Hill researcher leading EU study into violence and abuse in sport

    An Edge Hill University researcher will represent the UK as a subject expert in the field of gender-based violence and abuse in sport in a new study funded by the European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.

    February 16, 2016

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