Playing, coaching and participating safely.

In the past few years we have seen an increase in the number of clubs engaging with youth players or making future plans to work with under 18s. Clubs have been coming to UK Ultimate for advice and support, which we have supplied on an ad hoc basis. With an increase in these requests we decided to review our safeguarding policy and information, including a new safeguarding pack of starting-point documents for clubs (all document can be found on our main Safeguarding page).

The Safeguarding Committee has the overall goal of helping UK youth Ultimate to develop and grow in a safe and supported way. The committee has three main purposes:

• Review the newly created safeguarding pack with a view of developing it further.

• Where possible offer direct support to clubs.

• When needed be a pool of people that can help with their knowledge and experience when incidents are reported.