Member protection

Member protection is a term used by the Australian sports industry to describe the practices and procedures that protect an organisation’s members – both individual members such as players, coaches and officials, and the member organisations such as clubs, state associations, other affiliated associations and the national body. Member protection involves:

  • protecting members from harassment, abuse, discrimination and other forms of inappropriate behaviour
  • adopting appropriate measures to ensure the right people are involved in an organisation, particularly in relation to those involved with juniors
  • providing education and training
  • promoting and modelling positive behaviour.

The Play by the Rules website also provides online training and additional information about harassment, discrimination and abuse in sport.

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