Safe, fair and inclusive

Parents

4 Min

Young women’s engagement in sport in a ‘pandemic’ world

For many, the stop-start nature of sporting seasons, or the abrupt and prolonged cessation of training and competition, mean that they have lost important aspects of their social lives. During...

Coaches

3 Min

Coaching young people with autism

In this article, Special Olympics New Zealand share some key considerations for coaches working with young people with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.  Athletes are the heart of Special Olympics and the...

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Sport Leaders & Administrators

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Webinar replay: Getting child safeguarding right

What’s the difference between child safeguarding and child protection? What does good child safeguarding look like? When it comes to putting good child safeguarding policy and procedure in pace, where...

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Sport Leaders & Administrators

59 Min Watch

Webinar replay: Trials and selection processes in youth sport – What does good look like?

Youth sport trials and selection processes have long been a hot button topic (often due to the ‘fires’ they can create in community sport circles). In this webinar, Alex Chiet,...

Sport Leaders & Administrators

2 Min

Help keep sport safe, fair and inclusive

Everyone involved in sport and active recreation at any level should feel confident the environments in which they participate in are safe, fair, free from discrimination, abuse and other harmful...

Balance is Better in Action

7 Min

The constant loss that wiped out Kayla Imrie

This story was originally published in LockerRoom at Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission. Olympic paddler Kayla Imrie has struggled for a decade with the debilitating condition menorrhagia and now wants to help...

Coaches

6 Min

Women aren’t little men: developing female athletes

This story was originally published in LockerRoom at Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission. In the first of a series on the development of female athletes in New Zealand, Ashley...

Value of sport

4 Min

Balance is Better at the heart of wellbeing

When it comes to community sport, 2020 certainly had its ups and downs, from a complete halt to scaling alert levels.  Adversity though has taught us, if nothing else, that wellbeing...

Sport Leaders & Administrators

4 Min

Is COVID-19 the reset we need to improve sport for women and girls?

The COVID-19 pandemic is a unique opportunity for our sector. We are faced with the choice to re-build the sport sector as it was, or to realise  the possibilities that lie...