Safeguarding: the policies each body publishes.

Safeguarding policies say who is covered, what conduct is prohibited, what training and checks adults working with young players need, and how concerns are reported and handled. They differ by sport, country and level. A club player, a junior on an international tour and a coach working in the United States can each fall under different documents. Each policy sets its own reporting route, and those routes are in the documents themselves.

Tennis

ITF (World Tennis): Safeguarding Policy, January 2026

• What it replaced. The ITF Safeguarding Policy: Children and Adults took effect in January 2026 and supersedes the ITF's separate policies for safeguarding children and safeguarding adults. Cases already open under the old policies continue under them until they are closed.
• Scope. It states zero tolerance of harassment, abuse, violence and exploitation at the tournaments, events and programmes the ITF organises, authorises or sanctions. It names its partners as the regional and national associations, the WTA, the ATP and the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA).
• Who is covered. Its "Covered Persons" include anyone accredited at, competing in, coaching at or officiating at ITF-sanctioned events; players holding an IPIN registration; players' parents, guardians and chaperones; coaches, medical and support staff; people at ITF Regional Training Centres and on ITF touring teams; ITF staff, contractors and volunteers; and holders of ITF officiating or coaching qualifications.
• National associations. The policy says ITF national and regional associations must meet the safeguarding obligations in the ITF Constitution. It encourages them to share notice of investigations and suspensions with the ITF Safeguarding Team and to agree mutual recognition of provisional suspensions with the ITF, WTA, ATP and ITIA.
• Procedures. The ITF also lists Safeguarding and Case Management Procedures dated January 2026, covering how reports needing investigation are handled, including referral to statutory authorities. That document was seen only as a listing and was not read.

USTA Safe Play (United States)

The USTA's Safe Play programme requires three things for approval:

1. Annual training from the U.S. Center for SafeSport: a 90-minute core course, then three 30-minute refresher courses in the following years, after which the cycle starts again.
2. Acceptance of the USTA Safe Play Policy each year.
3. A criminal background screen, renewed every two years, through the National Center for Safety Initiatives (NCSI).

The LTA's own safeguarding policy (Britain) was not read in the research.

United States: the U.S. Center for SafeSport

The U.S. Center for SafeSport is the independent body with authority to investigate misconduct allegations within the US Olympic and Paralympic Movement. For it to act, the person reported must be a member or participant of a national governing body in that Movement, as each governing body defines membership.

• Exclusive jurisdiction. Sexual misconduct; criminal charges or dispositions involving child abuse or sexual misconduct; misconduct related to reporting them; and related aiding, abuse of process or retaliation.
• Discretionary jurisdiction. Non-sexual child abuse, emotional and physical misconduct, other criminal matters, and breaches of the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies (MAAPP). The Center may refer these back to the national governing body.

No source was found saying whether USA Pickleball falls within the Center's jurisdiction. Pickleball is not an Olympic or Paralympic sport, but that alone does not answer the question, and this site does not guess.

Squash

• PSA (professional tour). The PSA publishes a Safeguarding Policy covering children and vulnerable adults at PSA tournaments, events and programmes. It aims in part to support young elite players competing in a mostly adult environment, and sets out a reporting route through a dedicated safeguarding contact and an incident form. The policy file appears to have been uploaded in April 2024, and the incident form was updated in June 2025.
• England Squash. Its Safe Squash page provides template safeguarding policies, a reporting flowchart and a training matrix for clubs and counties. A search excerpt says its policies for children and adults at risk were revised on 1 November 2024; that date is unconfirmed.
• World Squash. No World Squash safeguarding policy was found in the research.

Badminton

The BWF's own pages could not be opened for the research, so both points below rest on search excerpts and are unconfirmed.

• Policy. The BWF is described as having a Safeguarding Policy and a Safeguarding Plan aimed at keeping badminton free from harassment and abuse; the policy sets a framework and responsibilities for prevention, defines harassment and abuse, and outlines reporting and case management.
• Online abuse. In February 2026 the BWF is described as announcing an online-safeguarding partnership with Signify Group, under which players and officials can report abusive direct messages to the BWF Integrity Unit.

Pickleball

• Pickleball England. A safeguarding adults policy dated 16 October 2023, applying to everyone over 18 involved in pickleball under its remit, was seen as a search-result listing; the document itself was not read, so its contents are unconfirmed.
• USA Pickleball. No USA Pickleball safeguarding policy was found in the research.

Padel

No FIP (International Padel Federation) safeguarding policy was found in the research.

What "not found" means here

Several bodies' websites could not be opened for the research, and a policy that was not found may still exist. Where a page says no policy was found, the body's own current website is the place where its policy, if it has one, is published. Coaching qualifications and the bodies that award them are covered in how people learn.