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This page provides you with information about the welfare training that current members of British Fencing who appear on the BF Workforce register (coaches, welfare officers, and team managers) need to undertake .

The schedule of upcoming BF courses is available and additional courses will be run on-demand, so please contact us if you can’t find a suitable course. Some of the required courses are delivered by external providers, we have provided links to these providers.

Don’t forget that in order for us to review and recognise your qualifications you will need to upload your own certificates to the Sport80 membership platform.

  1. Club Welfare Officers
  2. Event Welfare Officers
  3. Coaches
  4. Team Managers
  5. Referees
  6. Validity of certificates 
  7. Uploading certificates to the Sport:80 membership platform

Club Welfare Officers

This role also requires an appropriate Disclosure Check – these vary with your Home Country.

All parts of the UK excluding Scotland and Northern Ireland

Scotland

For anyone in Scotland who is renewing their CWPS training you may be entitled to do the CPWS Renewal Certificate which is online training rather than the full course. Check the Child Protection Training page on Scottish Fencing’s website for further details.

Northern Ireland

Additional Welfare Officer training

Welfare Officers are encouraged to continuously seek additional learning opportunities and CPD training. BF run regular WO briefing sessions.

Organisations such as the CPSU have online resources and events that Welfare Officers should explore to supplement their mandatory training described above.

Event Welfare Officers

Safeguard Core workshop or Core Refresh (coming soon) and BF  Event Welfare Officer Training with specialist CPD.

For more information please contact development@britishfencing.com

Team Manager

This role also requires an appropriate Disclosure Check – these vary with your Home Country.

All parts of the UK excluding Scotland and Northern Ireland

Recommended Training

Scotland

For anyone in Scotland who is renewing their CWPS training you may be entitled to do the CPWS Renewal Certificate which is online training rather than the full course. Check the Child Protection Training page on Scottish Fencing’s website for further details.

Northern Ireland

Coaches

This role also requires an appropriate Disclosure Check – these vary with your Home Country.

All parts of the UK excluding Scotland and Northern Ireland

Scotland

For anyone in Scotland who is renewing their CWPS training you may be entitled to do the CPWS Renewal Certificate which is online training rather than the full course. Check the Child Protection Training page on Scottish Fencing’s website for further details.

Northern Ireland

Other Coaching training requirements: There are other minimum requirements for coaches to become or remain registered (such as First Aid, coaching qualification, etc).

Referees

This role does NOT require safeguarding training but if you regularly referee U18’s then it is advisable to do the training course appropriate to your country.

This role also does not require an appropriate Disclosure Check unless you referee U18s more than 3days in a 30day period. This usually only applies to referees who are refereeing at British Fencing events or are Interntaionally deployed.

If you are unsure if you need SafeGuarding training or a Disclosure Check please email development@britishfencing.com for advice.

All parts of the UK excluding Scotland and Northern Ireland

Scotland

For anyone in Scotland who is renewing their CWPS training you may be entitled to do the CPWS Renewal Certificate which is online training rather than the full course. Check the Child Protection Training page on Scottish Fencing’s website for further details.

Northern Ireland

Uploading Certificates to Sport:80

Once you have your certificates, it is crucial that you upload them to your Sport:80 membership profile, as this is the information that we rely on to update the workforce registers. Currently, many welfare officers on the published register are shown as non-compliant because there is no evidence in the system of attending any welfare courses.

Having your certificates on the platform ensures you will receive reminders that you need to update your training when the expiry date is near (from 1 month before).

After you upload a certificate, the Development team will be notified by Sport80 and will review the document. If it is valid, your certificate will be approved. If your certificate hasn’t been approved within 14 days, for support or if you have an urgent request, please contact the BF Development Team.

A short tutorial on how to upload certificates on the Sport:80 membership platform is available. You will need to follow these steps:

  • Login to Sport80 and go to your profile page.
  • Click on ‘Safeguarding’ in the vertical menu.
  • Click on the button ‘Add Safeguarding’
  • For non-mandatory training, select ‘Other Safeguarding Qualification’
  • For mandatory training, select ‘Safeguarding Qualification’ and then choose the qualification type from the dropdown as follows:
  • Event Welfare Officer Training
  • NI SYPC Workshop
  • SafeGuard Core
  • SafeGuard Core CPD
  • SafeGuard Core Refresher
  • SafeGuard Core Welfare Officer
  • Scotland CWPO
  • Scotland CWPS

Certificates

All the certificates are valid for 3 years after the date of issue, meaning the training needs to be renewed before that period.

SafeGuard Core will have a validity of 6 years, as long as the required CPD is attended on an annual basis.

Last updated 17 Sept 2026