The NSPCC is very grateful for the opportunity to provide written evidence to the Committee on its focussed inquiry into safeguarding in the Culture, Arts and Leisure sectors. The report of Operation Yewtree1 into the activities of Jimmy Savile has acted as a wakeup call for organisations and society as a whole and a reminder that there are people in all walks of life who will seek to abuse their position of trust to harm children and manipulate systems and others to keep this abuse hidden. This review is timely indeed and we hope it will benefit from our experience of providing structured support to the sports sector in NI through the Child Protection in Sport Unit’s partnership with SportNI.