SAFEGUARDING IS EVERYONE’S RESPONSIBILITY

Everyone who is involved in British Eventing play a part in providing a safe environment for children and adults at risk within British Eventing and we all share responsibility for safeguarding,

British Eventing place the highest priority on safeguarding in our sport and  we work to ensure that all children, young people and adults at risk are safeguarded from abuse and have an enjoyable experience at all British Eventing activity.

British Eventing work with British Equestrian Federation and its other Member Bodies to ensure that the whole Federation adopts and operates within an accepted ethical framework to protect children, young people and adults at risk from harm, abuse and degrading treatment whilst participating in equestrian sports and activities.The full policy can be downloaded from the BEF website.

HOW DO WE DO THIS?

We seek to ensure that robust and consistent safeguarding systems exist including;

• developing policies and procedures to create a safe environment;
• providing accessible education programmes for our coaches, volunteers and participants;
• sharing information in a timely and appropriate manner;
• responding to and ensuring safeguarding concerns are investigated swiftly and thoroughly, working with statutory agencies and via the designated Safeguarding Officer and British Equestrian's Case Management Team

IF YOU'RE CONCERNED

If at any point you feel you would like to report a safeguarding concern, you can do so via:

Safe to play where you can find top tips for coaches, parents and participants and venues, officials and volunteers.

Alternatively you can contact the British Eventing safeguarding officer directly via:

Email: safeguarding@britisheventing.com

Tel: 02475 313663

In addition, you can contact the BEF safeguarding team

safeguarding@bef.co.uk or call 02475 313443

More information about how to report a safeguarding concern can be found here.

If you want to talk to someone else, you can call Childline on 0800 1111 or visit www.childline.org.uk.

If someone is in immediate danger, call the police on 999.