Safeguarding in Practice: What Good Looks Like

An informative and interactive session exploring what effective safeguarding looks like in climbing walls and indoor climbing environments. Led by safeguarding specialists and sector experts, the session will cover current legislation, emerging risks and practical approaches to creating safer spaces for participants, staff and volunteers.

Hosts:

  • Dean Straw, Develop Through Challenge
  • Helen Murphy, Inclusion & Safeguarding Manager, BMC
  • Jamie Smith, ClimbScotland Development Manager &  Safeguarding Lead, Mountaineering Scotland

Working together: Technical Advisors & Walls

An interactive session exploring how TAs and walls can work together for better outcomes. We will look at supporting walls through an incident and where the TA fits in: how they can be represented as an expert witness and how they can best work with walls to provide good documented support. We will also discuss safety checks undertaken by TAs and  the benefit of working to agreed standards.

Contributors:

  • Pete Nellist
  • Dan Crossdale

Welcome from the ABC

Join the ABC team and board members for an insight into the work of the ABC over the last year and what’s on the horizon for the association and the wider sector over the next 12 months.