Sport has a vital role to play if the UK's child obesity problem is to be tackled effectively. But with increased participation comes the responsibility of making sure all children are protected from abuse.
Golf is the latest sport to step up its child-protection efforts (News, 21-27 April), but others already have well-established practices in place as they look to safeguard children in situations where they can be vulnerable to adults in positions of power.
Steve Boocock, director of the Child Protection in Sport Unit, says people working in sport and leisure have the greatest contact with children and young people outside of the education system. As well as the inherent risks that brings, sport also has "a very positive role to play in child protection", he says.
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