Through its work on “safe sport” the IOC is taking steps to strengthen safeguarding across the Olympic Movement and to protect and promote the mental well-being of athletes.

Provision of Welfare Officers and a Safe Sport hub at the Olympic Games

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Provision of Welfare Officers and <br>a Safe Sport hub at the Olympic Games

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#### The IOC offers a quota of Welfare Officer accreditations to all NOC delegations at the Olympic Games and YOG for registered and nationally certified mental health practitioners and/or internationally certified safeguarding practitioners.

To encourage NOCs to further build capacity on safeguarding, the IOC offers two additional Welfare Officer accreditations for the Olympic Games and YOG for NOC staff members who hold the IOC Safeguarding Officer in Sport Certification.

A Welfare Officer Olympic Games accreditation was made available to all NOC delegations for the first time at Beijing 2022 following approval by the IOC Executive Board in November 2021, and will be made available for all future editions of the Olympic Games. Welfare Officers should be registered and nationally certified mental health practitioners and/or internationally certified safeguarding practitioners.

The IOC introduced chaperone accreditations at Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022. This new policy is designed to ensure that additional NOC accreditations are available for chaperones of any athletes who are under the age of 16.