Professor Melanie Lang is working with the Council of Europe (CoE) and the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) to promote child safeguarding in sport for member states.
Period: December 2023 – December 2026
As part of her role on the CoE’s Pool of international Experts on Safe Sport, Melanie has collaborated on various projects to enhance knowledge and practice in child safeguarding in sport across Europe and beyond. Working with other Pool members and as a consultant to the EPAS Secretariat, Melanie’s work has included the development of a compendium of resources on safe sport, a glossary of key terms, and guidelines on safer recruitment in sport for council member states and sport stakeholders (due for release late 2025). In her latest work with the CoE, Melanie is designing a training course on child safeguarding in sport as part of the Council’s HELP suite of courses (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals).