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Guidelines and quality standards for protection against violence

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Safe Sport plan for the future

With their plan for the future, dsj and the DOSB, together with their member organisations, are committing to the continuous improvement of protection against any form of abuse in sport and developing a sustainable overall strategy that is to take effect right down to the level of the around 87,000 sports clubs in Germany. The objectives behind the development of the plan for the future are to make concrete improvements in the quality of prevention, intervention and processing when it comes to protection against violence, to provide the associated quality assurance at all levels of organised support and to extend the required structures within and outside sport. 

In 2022, dsj collaborated with the DOSB, with the involvement of dsj and DOSB member organisations and athletes’ representatives, to carry out the dialogue process for protection against violence in sport. In this process, a policy paper of the DOSB, dsj and their member organisations and a resolution on “embedding protection against violence in sport in the Safe Sport plan for the future as a sustainable overall strategy!” were developed. 

Safe Sport plan for the future

Multi-stage models

dsj multi-stage model for the prevention of sexual abuse for dsj and its member organisations

The multi-stage model describes the minimum standards that dsj and its member organisations must meet with regard to the prevention of sexualised violence. The implementation of this model is a necessary prerequisite for dsj to forward subsidies.

Taking the results of the “Safe Sport” research into consideration, the status of the implementation of common minimum standards for prevention measures has been observed in a structured manner and the process systematically monitored at the dsj member organisations since 2018. Since 2022, the dsj member organisations have successfully completed the multi-stage model for the first time. 

dsj also requires its member organisations to observe and systematically monitor the status of the implementation of the minimum standards for prevention measures in their subdivisions. Close communication with the relevant state youth sports associations is important for central associations and sports associations with special functions.

Working aids, templates and other materials for implementing the measures in the dsj and DOSB multi-stage model can be found in the download area.

DOSB multi-stage model for the prevention of and protection against sexual harassment and sexualised violence for the DOSB, its member organisations and institutions affiliated to the DOSB.

In December 2020, the DOSB Members’ Meeting approved a DOSB multi-stage model that builds upon the dsj multi-stage model, and the steps for implementing it.

Whereas the youth associations completed the dsj multi-stage model by the end of 2021, the DOSB member organisations implemented the first two stages (A and B) of the multi-stage model in 2021. Each member organisation can now decide which additional steps they want to implement next. Since 2022, the step-by-step implementation required by the multi-stage model has been a prerequisite for the DOSB to forward public funds, provided that this is possible under funding law. The same applies to subsidies that DOSB grants from its own funds to its member organisations and to institutions organised in the legal form of a registered association in which DOSB member organisations have a voting majority. The multi-stage model must be implemented step-by-step by the end of 2024.

You can find further information and answers to frequently asked questions about the DOSB multi-stage model for the prevention of and protection against sexual harassment and sexualised violence at safesport.dosb.de.