Cycling must be a safe and welcoming place for all.
Coaches, leaders and instructors working with children are required to have a recognised safeguarding or child protection qualification, such as British Cycling’s Safeguarding Awareness course, in order to be insured by British Cycling alongside your qualification.
British Cycling and Scottish Cycling Safeguarding Policies
It is also recommended that non-qualification holders, for example volunteers working in a club environment or at events, undertake this vital training.
British Cycling’s Safeguarding Awareness course has been designed with child protection experts to provide a cycling-relevant training offer to ensure the cycling workforce is aware of safeguarding principles and best practice.
For those in Scotland, you are required to attend SportScotland's Child Wellbeing & Protection in Sport course. More information can be found here.
About the course
This course will help to raise your awareness of abuse and neglect, to recognise early signs that might indicate a problem and show you how to act if you know or suspect that a child, young person or adult needs help.
This is a two-part course comprising of a comprehensive piece of e-learning, followed by an hour discussion based online seminar. The course covers child development, categories of child and adult abuse, responding to abuse and creating a safe environment.
The online seminars occur once a fortnight, with self-enrolment being enabled upon completion of the e-learning module.
The qualification will need to be renewed every three years.
How long will the course take to complete?
Approximately 2 hours (including the 1 hour online seminar)
How do I enrol?
Click on the link below to enrol. Registration is £19.99 and once registered you will be given access to the course within five days and notified by email.
Enrol on Safeguarding Awareness course
Already registered on British Cycling Learning? Click on the link below to purchase directly.
British Cycling Learning - Safeguarding Awareness
On completion of the award, you will be able to download a certificate of attendance. We will update the qualification on your British Cycling dashboard upon completion.
