Everyone’s Business Episode 12: Safeguarding Adults in Sport

This episode focuses on the issue of safeguarding adults within the sporting world. Susan and Nicola discuss the issue of safeguarding measures especially in the scenario where the adults concerned have the autonomy to make decisions. What is it about the sporting environment which leads to safeguarding risks? What is it about the relationships between coach and athlete which establishes it as a potential threat? Susan and Nicola discuss the sporting arena in terms of safeguarding as that of a potential risk, rather than that of the intrinsic which the safeguarding of adults so often involves.

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