Leisure Services staff are advised never to:

• engage in rough, physical, sexually proactive games including horseplay.
• allow or engage in inappropriate touching of any form.
• allow children to use inappropriate language unchallenged.
• make sexually suggestive comments to a child, even in fun.
• let allegations a child makes go unchallenged, unrecorded or not acted on.
• do things of a personal nature that a child can do for itself.

Situations where abuse may occur can be minimised by:

• always being publicly open when working with children, avoiding situations where individual employees and children are completely unobserved.
• having, where possible, parents, guardians or group leaders taking responsibility for children under their care within changing rooms / toilets.
• preferably having a male and female member of staff supervising mixed activities.
• avoiding spending excessive amounts of time with children away from others.