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Lyndsey
Welsh Rugby Union
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30/04/2025
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My name is Lindsay Chaplin. My job in Welsh Rugby is to manage education and training from an
00:12
integrity perspective. So we manage everything to do with player welfare, safeguarding, medical
00:19
care and also anti-doping, betting, anti-corruption and discipline. I've been an educator for about
00:27
15-20 years but I actually delivered the first ever safeguarding training to the WIU or with the
00:35
WIU I should say about 11 years ago. It was the first time they'd ever run safeguarding training
00:40
in-house and through that I met Jeremy Rogers who at the time was the national safeguarding manager
00:46
and we just hit it off and he liked my delivery and I stuck around. So I've been delivering
00:53
safeguarding training for them for the last 11 years and then I came in the house full-time
00:59
about three and a half years ago into this role. So I think it's important we share our story because
01:06
I think rugby is really powerful and particularly in my team we see a lot to do with welfare, we see a lot
01:13
to do with safeguarding, a lot to do with kind of how people are impacted and affected by the game
01:24
and the connection and the real personal stuff, how it saves lives, we see that a lot and
01:34
I think the only way that you can really impact and connect with people is getting them on board to
01:40
understand the why. I think the why is really really important and it's not always the strap line, the
01:46
tagline of whatever sponsor, partner or we believe is important at the time but actually it's why
01:54
us as individuals get involved and what kind of made us make this step into sport or into wash rugby.
02:03
So I think it's really important, it inspires people, for me particularly for young girls, I've got two
02:10
little girls myself and I want them to know that working in sport is an incredible career, it's really
02:18
fulfilling but also that we have a space that we deserve and that you know can be meaningful and our
02:26
contributions can be meaningful so it's really important for me. So my biggest lesson so far
02:32
is definitely about people. I think KPIs, targets, data is really important and I get that but for me
02:47
it's actually taking a time to check someone's okay and if they're not what can I do even in
02:53
a small way that's going to help them and impact them and whether that is delivering first aid for
02:58
a club because you know they've got little ones and there's injuries and they want to make them safe
03:03
or you know it's delivering safeguarding training for a club who has recently lost a member of their
03:09
community to domestic abuse or um some kind of violence or tragedy and actually taking the time
03:17
to listen and through that I guess help them with the healing process but also give them something to
03:25
to live for and I think that's what we can do um really easily and really powerfully um so for me
03:33
it's always about people always about people the time you spend with them and that never goes away like
03:39
the amount of people that years later remember you just took the time to ask how they were
03:44
and they've stayed involved or they've started volunteering or they've done something because
03:49
you know your connection stopped them and helped them to think and and kept them involved or kept
03:57
them on the right track or gave them a direction I I love that my proudest moment is being part of my
04:04
team so the integrity team is really often seen as the pc police like the people that you know we don't do
04:12
anything wrong you know we make all the right choices like that isn't the case like we're human
04:18
you know every human's fallible but actually what my team has is a really unique um kind of just embedded
04:32
idea of what's right and commitment to doing what we can to assist that and I think
04:40
I think being part of that you know we're not from a kind of superiority perspective nothing like that
04:48
but just wanting to do the right thing uh makes me genuinely proud to be part of my team every day
04:56
and in terms of achievement um the figures that we as a team my team of educators I'm really lucky
05:08
I have a team of 21 educators delivering um you know on difficult topics every day safeguarding
05:16
anti-doping betting discipline misconduct but they're an incredible team I'm really really
05:22
fortunate to have them they're all incredibly highly skilled educated qualified but also they
05:29
absolutely get it and the figures of kind of you know we are on an annual basis training
05:36
anywhere between three and a half and four and a half thousand people and that directly makes our
05:42
club safer and I'm really proud of that because that raises awareness for safeguarding it makes them
05:48
qualified in first aid it enables them to strap an injured player it prevents someone from saying
05:56
something they shouldn't have and and offending or upsetting someone or then creating the need for
06:02
a sighting or a red card um and as cheesy as it sounds I know 100% what we do makes a difference
06:11
so that's that's massive for me advice for my younger self
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I wish I wish I was as brave when I was younger as I am now I think time life experience um
06:26
has taught me not to waste as much time as I used to worrying about the small stuff
06:32
but also to be braver to stick up for the important stuff so um I'm a really proud ally and
06:39
advocate um for all things you know inclusion diversity just good you know good people
06:48
doing the right thing um but now I think I'm much braver and I
06:56
I don't care less but I have less time for the concerns and the consequences and I'm now braver to
07:05
just say actually this is right so I'm going to stick up for it and I'm going to do it and I
07:11
I wish I I wish I'd learned that earlier because um I think it takes bravery um but it definitely
07:20
makes a difference so yeah I wish I was braver earlier
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