Yorkshire & Humber Sport Welfare Officers

Sport Welfare Officers Network – The Yorkshire and Humber Team

As part of the new ground breaking initiative there are 5 new Sport Welfare Officers for Yorkshire and the Humber.  There are 63 sport welfare officers nationwide based within Active Partnerships.  The creation of the new network follows recommendations made by The Whyte Review and will support Club Welfare Officers across multiple sports.

The Sport Welfare Officers are working with National Governing Bodies and key partners such as the Child Protection in Sport Unit, Ann Craft Trust and local authorities.  They will be to developing a new, local approach to assisting and supporting club welfare officers to create safe, inclusive environments for children and adults.

Sport Welfare Officer Network | Active Partnerships

What can SWOs offer to Clubs and NGBs? 

What SWOs don’t do

Respond to concerns – SWOs can’t give advice on current cases of concern. All concerns must be referred without delay in accordance with National Governing Body and club safeguarding policies.

Make assessments or judgements – SWOs are a free, independent and impartial service that has been put in place to support club welfare officers. SWOs are not here to report back on, or criticise, the situation within specific clubs.

Your Local Officer in Yorkshire and Humber

You can find out more about your local Sport Welfare Officer below:

Mary Smith at Active Humber covering The Humber, East Riding and North East Lincolnshire:  Sport Welfare Officer : Welfare & Safeguarding : About Us : Active Humber

Laura Harris at North Yorkshire Sport covering North Yorkshire and York: Sports Welfare & Safeguarding – North Yorkshire Sport

Nicola Holmes, Douglas Blackwood and Measha Harris at Yorkshire Sport Foundation covering South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire: Sport Welfare Officers – Yorkshire Sport Foundation

Please get in touch with your local Sport Welfare Officer – they’d love to hear from you, whether you need support right away, want to share good practice, or just to say hello and introduce yourself.

Latest

The Sport Welfare Team across Yorkshire and the Humber are delighted to be running their next online Sport Welfare Connect network event.

Sport Welfare Connect

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

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 behaviour management 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.

The event is free of charge and will take place via Microsoft Teams.

This is an opportunity for Club Welfare Officers and others who work within welfare, wellbeing and safeguarding in sport and physical activity to learn about a variety of topics. There’ll also be time to chat about current welfare issues and to share good practice.

Would you like to present at the next session? We’d love to share best practice on any safeguarding, wellbeing and welfare topics if you have done something at your club or activity that’s worked really well. Please let us know.

Book Training

We offer a wide variety of training including the most recent:

A Community in Motion – Active Bystander Training focussing on Racism in Sport

We have a team of 20 trainers from a variety of backgrounds including sport, local authority, voluntary and community sector and those with lived experience.

We can offer fully subsidised training for your sporting organisation or club on the active bystander approach and will match you with the most appropriate trainers for your organisation.

Please get in touch to book or discuss this training further: