Safeguarding: the policies the governing bodies publish.

Why this page names policies only

A short summary of a safeguarding policy could mislead someone who needs to act on it, so this page names each policy, gives its status as far as the research confirmed it, and leaves the content to the documents themselves.

England and Wales: the ECB's Safe Hands policy

• Name. The ECB's safeguarding policy is called Safe Hands. The ECB's 2025 Recreational Cricket Safety Regulations refer to it by that name.
• Current edition. A Safe Hands policy document dated March 2026 is hosted on the ECB's site. We saw it only in a search result and did not open it, so its date and contents are unconfirmed here.
• A confirmed requirement. The ECB's 2025 regulations require clubs to follow Safe Hands when juniors play open-age cricket, and to have appropriately DBS-checked adults supervising them. The regulation text was read from a copy reproduced in a Cornwall cricket handbook. The rules on when juniors may play open-age cricket are on junior cricket rules.
• Adoption. County-board pages say county boards, affiliated clubs and leagues are required to adopt and implement Safe Hands. We saw this only in a search summary, so it is unconfirmed.

Australia

• Australian Cricket's Policy for Safeguarding Children and Young People. A search summary describes it as endorsed by Cricket Australia and the state and territory associations, sitting within Australian Cricket's Framework for Safeguarding Children and Young People, alongside the Looking After Our Kids codes of behaviour. We did not open the page, and the version date is unconfirmed.
• Cricket NSW. A search summary of Cricket NSW's safeguarding page describes a model that includes a nominated Child Safe Officer and says it works to uphold the 10 Child Safe Standards. This is unconfirmed.

Other boards

The research for this site did not cover safeguarding policies from the ICC, New Zealand Cricket, Cricket Ireland, Cricket South Africa or the BCCI, so none is named here.