The Equality and respect in sport implementation guide provides a step-by-step approach, and good practice examples of how your sporting organisation can work to prevent violence against women.

The implementation guide should be read in conjunction with the Equality and respect in sport standards.

Implementation guide

Implementation guide

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Step 1: Getting started

Key tasks

Identify staff to lead the work internally

Understand violence against women and how sporting organisations can prevent it

Secure genuine commitment from leaders

Ensure your organisation can respond to staff, players and volunteers who experience abuse and violence

Step 2: Developing an action plan

Key tasks

Consult and engage staff and key stakeholders

Collect data on your organisation

Assess your workplace against the Standards to determine priorities

Develop or revise a long-term strategy and immediate action plan

Step 3: Implementing your plan

Key tasks

Implement priority actions to support gender equality

Review and reflect on an annual basis

Equality and respect in sport standards

These standards focus on what you can do with your staff and stakeholders to address violence against women in a sports context.