Do no harm
Activities should never expose children or young people to avoidable physical, emotional, digital, or reputational harm.
Safeguarding
Dignity, consent, and safety come before visibility.
CYEF works with children, young people, schools, teams, families, volunteers, and partners. This page sets out public commitments that protect participants and support accountable programming.
Public commitment
Everyone involved in CYEF work is expected to protect young people.
Supervised access
Website enquiries, volunteers, media teams, and visitors should not receive unsupervised access to learners or youth participants.
Consent and privacy
Photos, names, stories, interviews, and personal details should only be used with appropriate consent and a clear purpose.
Inclusive participation
Programs should be respectful, non-discriminatory, gender-responsive, and accessible to young people from different backgrounds.
Safe reporting
Concerns should be reported through official CYEF channels and handled with confidentiality, urgency, and care.
Partner accountability
Partners, coaches, mentors, volunteers, and vendors are expected to follow safeguarding and conduct expectations during CYEF activities.
Minimum standards
What safeguarding looks like in practice.
- Before activities: brief staff, volunteers, coaches, media, and partners on conduct, consent, emergency contacts, and participant boundaries.
- During activities: maintain supervision, avoid one-on-one isolated access, monitor risks, and make reporting channels visible.
- After activities: store media responsibly, respond to concerns, collect feedback, and document lessons for future safety improvements.
Partner documents
Safeguarding files to keep ready for due diligence.
These documents should be approved by the client before public upload. Until then, partners can request the latest approved versions through CYEF's official contact channels.
Child protection and safeguarding policy
Volunteer, coach, and staff code of conduct
Incident reporting and escalation procedure
Referral pathway for child protection and health concerns
Media consent and image-use guidance
Data protection and enquiry-handling notice
Event safety and first-aid readiness checklist
Partner/vendor safeguarding expectations
Report a concern
Use official CYEF channels for safeguarding concerns.
If a concern involves a child, young person, volunteer, coach, media activity, online communication, or field event, contact CYEF promptly and share only necessary details. Emergency cases should also be reported to the appropriate local authorities or emergency service.