A duty of care, without surveillance.
Athletes and their families receive threats from bettors, abuse after matches and approaches from people seeking inside information, in messages no club or governing body can see.
The problem
- Abuse peaks after a loss, a missed shot or a contested decision, and increasingly reaches partners and children.
- Fixing approaches arrive privately. Players are required to report them, and will only use something they control.
- Public comment moderation covers the safest part of the problem. A review that measures public comments alone grades every provider on it.
- Any exception to "nothing leaves the phone" becomes the doubt, and bad behaviour moves elsewhere.
The evidence
What discovery settles
- Your harm list: fixing approaches, bettor threats, racist and sexual abuse, abuse of families, grooming in the pathway.
- Player controls and routing per cohort: contracted, pathway and junior, match officials and public-facing staff.
- Recipients a player can choose: welfare, integrity, the players’ association, their own lawyer, police.
- What reaches the governing body. Our recommendation is nothing by default at the start, then pre-agreed exceptions.
- Consent and adoption, worked through with the players’ association.
- An evidence package standard set with your investigators.
Obligations in scope
- Anti-corruption code reporting obligations.
- Duty of care to contracted and pathway athletes.
- Child safe standards and working with children checks across junior programs.
- WHS duties, privacy law and workplace surveillance law.
- Fit with player agreements and the code of conduct.
What you hold at the end
- A ranked list of priorities: which harm and which cohort to start with, and why.
- A routing matrix, which is the product configuration.
- An escalation policy and matching contract terms.
- A configured pilot and a board report & business case.
How an engagement runs
Each step is its own decision. You only go further when the last one has earned it.
Desktop audit
A short review of how harm reaches your people today, from your intake answers and a call.
Request a briefing ›Audit & organisational plan
Your departments mapped against the harms and obligations in scope, checked against a framework built with specialist employment counsel.
A private first cohort
Around ten people, fully private, with no automatic escalation. Training and hands-on onboarding included, measured against a baseline.
Policy & escalation
Your policies built into the escalation pathways, mapped with counsel and your broker, so the board can show its obligation is met.
Twelve-month term
Quarterly reviews, threshold tuning, refresher training and a board report on what the control is doing.
Ready to get started?
Private by default creates no new obligations for the club or the league. Discovery settles everything else with the people who have to own it.