SPORT INTEGRITY
NU Sport is striving to make sport safe for all athletes, coaches, administrators, parents and volunteers.
NU Sport is dedicated to working with all stakeholders to create and provide a fun, safe and positive environment for all to participate.
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Practicing Safe Sport focuses on appropriate and ethical relationships between all participants by supporting everyone physically, socially, mentally and emotionally.
WHAT IS SPORT INTEGRITY?
You may have heard the term ‘Safe Sport’ or ‘Sport Integrity’. This is the Canadian sport sector’s efforts to create safe and welcoming environments by providing comprehensive behavioural standards and dispute resolution mechanisms to prevent and address maltreatment and other issues that may need a pathway to be resolved fairly.
Physical, sexual and/or emotional maltreatment is misconduct or inappropriate behaviour that
includes bullying, discrimination, harassment, abuse and/or inappropriate touching or contact.
WHY IS SPORT INTEGRITY IMPORTANT?
We all deserve to participate in sport environments that are accessible, inclusive, safe, and free from all forms of Maltreatment by others. To reach this goal, sport organizations must ensure safety in their sport environments.
Every participant plays a role in ensuring an environment that is safe for everyone.
HOW DO WE ENSURE SAFE SPORT?
NU Sport’s Sport Integrity Policy Suite (SIPS) is a key commitment to making sport safe. It is a comprehensive package of policies that set rules, procedures, and standards for behaviour to help maintain a safe environment.
Click Here for the summary of SIPS Policies.
Click Here for the SIPS Personnel Guide.
NU Sport’s SIPS applies to its Members’ and participants and is aligned with Canada’s Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS) which prohibits all forms of maltreatment and prohibited behaviour. This ensures sport organizations at all levels within the territory have identical standards and take the same approach to creating
safe sport environments.
All participants - such as volunteers, administrators, athletes, coaches and officials - who work or participate within Canada’s national sports system must follow the UCCMS. The Government of Nunavut has committed to follow the same criteria and anyone who participates through NU Sport will adhere to these leading standards.
NU Sport's plan for safer sport consists of:
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NU SPORT - PLAN FOR SAFER SPORT
AWARENESS
The first step to establishing Safe Sport is AWARENESS. NU Sport will work to ensure that all stakeholders (athletes, coaches, administrators, officials and parents) have the knowledge to understand the difference between acceptable and unacceptable behaviours in sport.
SPORT INTEGRITY
Sport Integrity Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport) is an independent, national, not-for-profit organization that works to protect and promote the integrity of sport in Canada.
Through the administration of our programs, including the Canadian Anti-Doping Program and the Canadian Safe Sport Program, we strive to ensure sport is safe, inclusive, fair, clean, and accessible for all Canadians.
COMMIT TO KIDS
Commit to Kids provides organizations with information on the issue of abuse, which forms the basis for educated policies and procedures — from hiring, screening and training staff, to reporting issues.
This enables all employees and volunteers throughout an organization to uphold standards of conduct that protect children and youth in their care by focusing on healthy interactions between adults and children.
RESPONSIBLE COACHING MOVEMENT
The Responsible Coaching Movement invites all coaches and sport organizations to learn and apply consistent safety principles.
It includes three distinct pillars, each serving to create a sport environment that is Safe, Smart, and Secure.
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The three pillars are:
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Rule of Two
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Background Screening
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Ethics Training
ABUSE FREE SPORT
The Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport (UCCMS) is the core document that sets harmonized rules to be adopted by sport organizations that receive funding from the Government of Canada to advance a respectful sport culture that delivers quality, inclusive, accessible, welcoming and safe sport experiences.
TRAINING AND PREVENTION
NU Sport believes providing training for all sport leaders is the best approach in prevention for all abuse in sport. Everyone who is in involved in the delivery of sport should have the proper knowledge and tools to provide safe sport environments for all Nunavummiut.​
Started in 2025 the Government of Nunavut - Sport & Recreation Division and NU Sport has required everyone involved with Sport in Nunavut to take Safe Sport training. Each sport pathway will have required and suggested training to complete.
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To view what each stakeholder requires for training, click on your pathway below.
​The following links all provide opportunities for leaders of all levels to increase their knowledge through training.
SAFE SPORT TRAINING
Safe Sport Training was developed to help anyone involved in sport — whether you have direct contact with athletes or work in the background — to promote physical, psychological, and social health, in line with the Universal Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport.
RESPECT IN SPORT
The Respect in Sport Activity Leader/Coach Program educates youth leaders, coaches, officials and participants (14-years and up) to recognize, understand and respond to issues of bullying, abuse, harassment and discrimination (BAHD). Our Activity Leader and Parent Programs are the Safe Sport Canada solution!
NCCP MAKE ETHICAL DECISIONS
The National Coaching Certification (NCCP) offers coaches the opportunity for training and evaluation in ethical decision-making through the NCCP Make Ethical Decisions training, and online evaluation.
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By successfully completing the NCCP Make Ethical Decisions training, coaches will be fully equipped to handle ethical situations with confidence. The training helps coaches identify the legal, ethical and moral implications of difficult situations that may present themselves in the world of team and individual sport.​
NCCP CREATING A POSITIVE SPORT ENVIRONMENT
The CCES is an independent, national, not-for-profit, multi-sport organization with a vision of fair, safe, accessible, and inclusive sport for everyone.
We believe the fundamental purpose of sport can and should be to make a positive contribution to Canadian society and that ethical sport is the best way to achieve that.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND REPORTING
Sport Organizations in Nunavut from the community to the territorial level may need to make decisions, manage disagreements and/or take action against members for unacceptable behaviours. This can affect all stake holders associated with sport.
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It is the sport organization's responsibility to ensure all individuals know the rules, know where to find and access rules, and understand the consequences when they are not respected.
The first step in this this process is to understand the difference between Dispute, Misconduct and Maltreatment.