Local council

• Ensure all sport and active recreation organisations using council facilities are promoting the Fair Play Code.
• Ensure Fair Play Code messaging is available and visible at all council facilities.

Officials and volunteers

• Be informed about, abide by, and promote compliance with the Fair Play Code.
• Report potential Fair Play Code breaches to the appropriate authorities.

Players/participants

• Understand the Fair Play Code and how it applies when participating in sport. This includes understanding your rights and obligations as a player/participant.
• Calling out all forms of bad behaviour.

Parents

• Educate children about the importance of demonstrating good sportsmanship and modelling these behaviours.
• Understand the actions that can be taken when there is a potential breach of the Fair Play Code.

Spectators and members of the public

• Abide by the Fair Play Code when attending sport and recreation training, events and activities.
• Encourage good sportsmanship and positive behaviours at all times.

State sporting associations and active recreation bodies

• Include the Fair Play Code in your policy documentation.
• Ensure your organisation has systems and processes in place to manage a complaint or breach of the Fair Play Code.

Leagues, associations and clubs

• Actively adhere to and promote the Fair Play Code throughout your networks and at your facilities.
• Educate everyone in your organisation about the Fair Play Code and ensure it’s part of any induction process.
• Make sure the Fair Play Code is readily available and visible to everyone.

• Ensure the Fair Play Code is visible throughout your facility and constantly promote its values and principles.
• Promote positive behaviours.
• Call out bad behaviours.
• Use the Fair Play Code Implementation and Action Plan Tool to assist your organisation in implementing better policies and practices that support fair, inclusive and safe sport.

• Fair Play Code Implementation and Action Plan tool
• Fair Play Code Implementation and Action Plan tool accessible

• Being a Fair Play Organisation means supporting good sportsmanship, exercising integrity and respect, and speaking out against bad behaviour.
• Organisations receiving Victorian Government funding must adhere to and promote the Fair Play Code.

The Fair Play Code for Tenants Form must be completed by organisations or local councils who seek funding from the Victorian Government for a sporting facility.

• All fields of the form must be completed by an authorised representative of the organisation.
• The form must be included as part of the funding application.
• The organisation must actively adhere to and promote the Fair Play Code to be eligible for funding.

• Promote the Fair Play Code via social media channels and on your website.
• Download the Fair Play Code posters and supporting information to display at your venue (links to the resources are available in the Supporting Resource section above).
• Ensure your members know the Fair Play Code, and include it in your induction process for new members.

Fair Play Code breaches should be reported to the appropriate organisation:

• Your state sport organisation.
• Vicsport - represents sport organisations in Victoria.
• Sport Integrity Australia - provides national policy direction and complaints support on integrity issues for those sports that are signed up to the National Integrity Framework.
• Sport Australia - provides strategic guidance, leadership and funding for sports in Australia.
• The Commission for Children and Young People is the regulatory body for the Victorian Child Safe Standards. It provides publications, useful links, resources and support for the Child Safe Standards and the Reportable Conduct Scheme.

Further assistance

• Play by the Rules provides support for sporting organisations to put policies and guidelines in place to deal with unlawful or inappropriate behaviour like abuse, harassment, unfair treatment and discrimination.

Contact sportprograms@sport.vic.gov.au for more information about the Fair Play Code or to receive promotional material for your organisation.