A number of UK sporting National Governing Bodies (NGB) are coming together to help tackle the issue of abuse towards officials and how to support them and protect their mental health.
In a new podcast, Dr Tom Webb explains how he is trying to increase and develop the conversations between sports and so to be able to get these different sports to discuss the abuse, support and mental health of officials and to look at what can be done across sports to combat these issues.
In a fascinating discussion, Dr Webb says the aim is to tackle the abuse that officials face and interconnected issues such as isolation and the impact on mental health, disciplinary processes and duty of care around sports officials.
By learning from different sports (both in terms of aspects and initiatives that have worked and those that have not worked) and sharing good practice, it is hoped that the outcomes can help improve the recruitment and retention of sports officials.
