Education and training

How can you play your part to create a safe, positive environment for children taking part in active recreation and sport? This series of bite-sized learning is aimed at anyone working with or supporting children and will help you understand topics such as motivations of children, building trusted relationships, and understanding the different needs for ages and stages of development. 

In this webinar, Sport and Recreation Complaints and Mediation Service (SRCMS) team leader Henry Moore explains how the independent service is being utilised by sport and active recreation organisations across the motu. From grass roots to elite level, the SRCMS supports and resolves integrity issues. In this webinar, gain insights and tips on how to use the service – no matter what level of sport or active recreation you’re at.

When participating in sport or active recreation, children and young people should feel safe and supported. In this series, hear from child safeguarding expert Willow Duffy from Safeguarding Children on how to create fair, inclusive and safe sport and active recreation settings for all children and young people.

Andrew Scott-Howman talks about what match-fixing is and who it can impact, how to recognise it, the consequences of it, and what to do if you suspect something fishy is going on. Andrew is a Wellington-based barrister who has extensive experience advising, and working with, amateur and professional players and sporting organisations both in New Zealand and overseas.  

In this webinar, Sport NZ talks with Ruth Browning, Safeguarding Children NZ, and Joe Hitchcock, former CEO, Badminton New Zealand, on the importance of creating a child safe organisation and culture, and how every sports organisation can do their best to safeguard and protect the children in their community.