Edinburgh Sports Club - Tennis Safeguarding Standards Survey 2025

Introduction

Thank you for agreeing to take part in this survey. It should take about 5 minutes to complete and your responses are anonymous. If you are under the age of 16, your parent/carer must complete this with you.
The LTA/Tennis Scotland is committed to providing a safe and enjoyable tennis environment in all venues. We are evaluating the effectiveness of safeguarding measures in place at Edinburgh Sports Club and the purpose of this survey is to seek your feedback. Your views and opinions are vitally important to achieving this.
Please note: this survey is part of a process that involves all clubs across GB
The LTA/Tennis Scotland is administering this survey and will be collating the results. A summary of the results will be shared with the venue in order to help them work on areas that require improvement.
Please be assured that your responses are anonymous and so we encourage you to be honest and frank.
Whilst responses are anonymous, please note that if a safeguarding issue is identified, it may be necessary for the LTA/Tennis Scotland to make efforts to contact the respondents to try and ascertain further details. Therefore, if you do have a safeguarding concern, you can report this to the LTA (anonymously, if you wish) using our dedicated and secure online reporting page: https://safeguardingconcern.lta .org.uk/_(https://safeguardingconcern.lta.org.uk/).


1.What is your involvement at the venue?
2.Is your parent/carer completing this survey on your behalf?
3.In which of the following ways would you describe yourself?
4.How long have you been at the venue?
5.Safeguarding is about taking preventative action to promote the welfare of children and Protected adults, and protect them for abuse and neglect.

To what extent do you feel that Safeguarding is a priority for your venue?
6.Before today, which of the following did you know your venue had in place?
7.Do you know who the Welfare Officer is at your venue?
8.Have you ever received any of the following from your venue?
9.To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly agree
Coaches take safeguarding seriously
Coaching is delivered in a safe and inclusive manner
Coaches promote the safety and well-being of players
10.Thinking about the venue overall, to what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
I feel safe at the venue
The venue committee/management cares about safeguarding
I feel I would be able to report a safeguarding concern if I needed to
If I did report a safeguarding concern I feel this would be acted on
There is a positive safeguarding culture at the venue
11.To what extent would you be concerned or not concerned by the following scenarios?
Not concerned at all
Slightly concerned
Somewhat concerned
Moderately concerned
Extremely concerned
Coaches giving lifts to children on an individual basis
An adult being harassed due to their disability
Parents/adults being verbally abusive towards children
Children sending explicit images to each other (aka sexting)
Photos of children being taken without parental consent
A volunteer/coach tickling a child
12.What, if anything, do you feel could present a barrier to reporting a safeguarding concern at the venue?
13.Is there anything that you think would help improve safeguarding at the venue?
14.Is there any further context or comments you would like to add based on any of your answers in this survey?
15.Is there anyone you would like to recognize for their positive safeguarding work at the venue?