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Centre for Child Protection and Safeguarding in Sport

  • Members
  • Projects
    • 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
  • Publications
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
    • The Routledge Handbook of Athlete Welfare launch event – November 2020
    • Inaugural CPSS Conference – January 2020
  • Resources
    • Newsletter
    • Waiving anonymity sexual abuse in football
    • Children’s voices in sport
  • Videos

  • New research centre on safeguarding in sport generates hope for real change

    Edge Hill University’s new research centre on safeguarding in sport has generated hope for real change.

    February 11, 2020

  • CPSS Newsletter Issue 3

    The third issue of the CPSS newsletter is available to download now.

    November 4, 2021

  • CPSS Newsletter Issue 2

    The second issue of the CPSS newsletter is available to download now.

    October 5, 2020

  • Academic wins IOC grant to investigate abuse education in sport

    An Edge Hill academic has won a prestigious award from the International Olympic Committee to educate coaches and athletes in three countries about non-sexual abuse in sport.

    July 24, 2020

  • CPSS Newsletter Issue 1

    The second issue of the CPSS newsletter is available to download now.

    October 17, 2019

  • Academic highlights the ‘hidden’ violence plaguing the sports world

    An academic at Edge Hill University’s new Centre for Child Protection and Safeguarding in Sport has voiced concerns about the ‘hidden’ violence plaguing the sports world.

    September 30, 2019

  • Lancashire expert in sexual abuse is leading European funded study into child abuse in sport

    The first study of its kind into child abuse within sport is being spearheaded by a Lancashire academic. Edge Hill University Academic Mike Hartill, an expert in sexual abuse in sport, is leading European funded project.

    September 3, 2019

  • 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

  • Edge Hill expert calls for greater recognition of gender-based violence in sport

    Sporting organisations need to do more to understand and prevent gender-based violence, according to Edge Hill University senior lecturer Dr Melanie Lang in an interview with BBC Sport Online.

    August 15, 2018
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