LTA Safe to Play National Safeguarding Conference
The LTA Safe To Play Safeguarding Conference is an annual event that brings together a range of safeguarding experts as well as venues and parents to share their knowledge and experiences in a host of informative and engaging presentations.
You can watch a range of sessions from this year's conference as well as recordings from previous years.
The 2026 LTA Safe To Play Annual Safeguarding Conference took place online virtually on Saturday 3rd October 2026.
Attendees heard from a range of safeguarding experts to understand what working together in safeguarding really means, and from parents to understand the important role they have in supporting their child and embodying positive behaviours.
Recorded sessions:
On Saturday 4th October 2025, in support of the NSPCC CPSU Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week, the LTA ran its Safe to Play Annual Safeguarding Conference.
The free conference was designed for tennis volunteers, coaches, and officials, and proved to be an informative and engaging day. Sessions included keynote speakers and workshops that provided opportunities to learn and share good practice on how to keep tennis and padel safe.
The majority of sessions were recorded and can be watched below.
Recorded sessions:
On Saturday the 5th October, in support of the NSPCC CPSU Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week 2024, we ran the LTA Safe to Play Annual Safeguarding Conference 2024.
- Designed with tennis volunteers, coaches and officials
- Informative and engaging sessions
- Key note speakers
- Interactive workshops
- Lots of opportunities to learn and share good practice of how to keep tennis safe
The sessions were recorded and are available to watch using the links below.
Bystander Theory (with Kevin Murphy, NWG)
Survivors Story (with Dion Raitt)
Sport England Welfare Officers and How They Can Help (with Laura Harris, North Yorkshire Sport)
Competition Events and Trips Safeguarding
Engaging Children and Young People in your Venue
In October 2023 we ran a Safeguarding in Tennis Awareness Week. This included a number of workshops throughout the week on a range of topics which provided practical tips and examples to support people in their role.
All the sessions from the event are available to view online:
In the week beginning the 2nd October 2023 and in support of the NSPCC CPSU Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week 2023, the LTA ran a Safeguarding in Tennis Awareness Week.
We hosted a number of workshops throughout the week with topics informed by your valued feedback in areas you wanted more information on. The sessions provided practical tips and examples to support people in their role.
The workshops were all recorded and can be accessed online below.
Venue Support Visit Walkaround
A Regional Safeguarding Officer will take delegates through a walkaround of a venue, identifying key elements of the safeguarding support visit process and how venues can ensure best practice in achieving the standards.
Meet the YPWAs
A chance to hear about the Young People’s Welfare Ambassador project, the first of its kind in sport! Hear from some of the young people and their venue Welfare Officers about the benefits of some of the projects and work they have completed in working with the LTA to raise safeguarding awareness and engage children and young people at their venues.
There will also be an opportunity to hear about plans for the project going forward and how you can get involved from 2024.
Safeguarding Case Study Workshop
An opportunity to talk through real life cases from start to finish, detailing how best to manage concerns and what happens once a report is made to the LTA. These sessions have proven extremely popular at past conferences and are therefore back by demand.
Izzey’s Story – A Facilitated Workshop About Grooming
A workshop led by Professor Jane Reeves from the University of Kent, who with the LTA and tennis community, developed an innovative new training package about a case of grooming occurring within a tennis club. This facilitated session will take delegates through the game and provide them with greater insight, analysis and understanding of grooming. Delegates who complete this workshop will have 12 months added to their current safeguarding training validity.
Risk Assessment Processes
This is an area the team have repeatedly been asked for further guidance on. This session will cover risk assessments, how to identify risks, how to mitigate those risks and how best to record your safeguarding risk assessment for events you may run at county or venue level.
Welfare Officer Forum – Ideas For Raising And Maintaining Safeguarding Awareness In Your Venue
This session will cover the importance of safeguarding awareness on an ongoing basis as well as looking at some easy, practical ways clubs can raise and maintain it. Particular attention will be given to how and what safeguarding information is communicated to everyone in the club as well as getting the most out of Clubspark Membership, Court booking and Coaching modules.