Safeguarding training for your coaches, kept up to date
We are partnering with cricket organisations to give their coaches a safeguarding course they sign in to and complete online. It is built around your own reporting route, so a coach finishes knowing exactly who to tell and by when.
Now enrolling partner organisations. Coaches get access as their organisation is set up.
Organisation-enrolled, coach-completed
The course is not open to the public. Coaches reach it through the organisation they coach for, which is what lets that organisation see who has completed it.
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Your organisation partners with us
We agree the scope with your safeguarding lead or welfare officer, and build your own reporting route, named contacts and escalation steps into the course, so coaches learn the procedure they will actually use.
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Your coaches get their own sign-in
You send us the list of coaches. Each one gets a personal account. There is no public sign-up: the training is only open to coaches of partner organisations.
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Coaches work through it at their own pace
Short modules, on a phone or a computer, with questions at the end of each so a coach can check they have understood rather than just scrolled.
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Your safeguarding lead can see who has done it
Completion is recorded against each coach, so the organisation can see who is up to date and who still needs to finish, and chase them before the season rather than after.
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It is kept up to date
When guidance changes, the modules change and coaches are asked to refresh, instead of relying on whatever they remember from a course years ago.
Already a coach with a partner organisation? Your sign-in details come from your organisation's safeguarding lead or welfare officer.
The course, module by module
Noticing a concern
What a concern can look like in cricket: an unexplained injury, a change in a child, something said in passing, a sense of unease you cannot name. Concerns that start outside cricket, at home, at school or online, count too.
Report, do not investigate
A coach records what they saw and heard, in the child's own words where possible, keeping fact separate from opinion. Deciding whether abuse has happened is not the coach's job, and trying to find out can do harm.
Acting the same day
If a child is in immediate danger, call the emergency services first. Otherwise, tell your welfare officer at the earliest opportunity: the ECB Safeguarding Regulations 2026 expect concerns to be shared within one working day.
Where cricket creates its own risks
One-to-one coaching, changing rooms, lifts and collection, tours and overnight stays, photographs and video, and private messages between coaches and players.
Concerns about adults
Positions of trust and professional boundaries, and low-level concerns about a coach, volunteer or parent: behaviour that is not abuse on its face but should still be written down and passed on.
Children who communicate differently
Our own specialism. An autistic child, a child with ADHD or a child with limited speech may disclose sideways, through behaviour, or not in words at all, and may be more vulnerable for exactly that reason. Coaches learn what to look for.
What this is not. This sits alongside, not instead of, whatever the ECB and your county require of your coaches. It is not an ECB course, it is not a qualification, and it does not replace a DBS check or your organisation's own safeguarding policy. Safeguarding decisions stay with your welfare officer and the statutory agencies.
What a partnership can include
Coach safeguarding training
The signed-in course above, for every coach in a partner organisation, with completion your safeguarding lead can see.
Inclusive coaching
Our free coach guide on running a session that works for autistic and ADHD players, and a session with your coaches on the children you actually have.
Read itSafeguarding systems
Help for your safeguarding lead in working out how concerns should be recorded and followed through, from first report to closure and what the organisation learns, and in judging whether a case-management platform fits.
Support for welfare officers
Someone clinical to talk to when the question is about a child's development or behaviour rather than a safeguarding decision, and a route to assessment when a family wants one.
Bring your coaches on board
Tell us who you are, roughly how many coaches you have, and who leads on safeguarding. We will come back to you to agree the scope and set up your organisation.