Andrew Trimble’s firm Kairos puts safety and wellbeing of young people first

NI sport tech firm announces partnership to provide digital safeguarding system for local sporting academies and youth teams
Andrew Trimble, CEO and co-founder, and Gareth Quinn, COO and Co-founder, both of KairosAndrew Trimble, CEO and co-founder, and Gareth Quinn, COO and Co-founder, both of Kairos
Andrew Trimble, CEO and co-founder, and Gareth Quinn, COO and Co-founder, both of Kairos

Northern Ireland sport tech firm Kairos has announce a new partnership with The Safeguarding Company.

The strategic partnership will be the first of its kind worldwide and is designed to provide an efficient and comprehensive digital safeguarding system for local sporting academies and youth teams.

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Co-founded by world-renowned rugby player Andrew Trimble, Kairos is a global leading sports technology company, providing communications and operational tools for elite sports teams in major leagues. The firm also specialises in working with some of the world’s leading sports academies to ensure safe, secure and seamless communication between staff, young people and guardians.

The Safeguarding Company provides industry leading safeguarding solutions that prevent, reduce and eliminate abuse, harm and neglect and protect the wellbeing, health and human rights of children and adults all over the world - including elite sports teams.

This exciting partnership will see the integration of both platforms facilitating the secure and accurate reporting, recording and management of all safeguarding, pastoral and wellbeing concerns about young people in their care.

Senior leaders benefit from an instant and up-to-date overview of all safeguarding concerns at the click of a button and the ability to clearly identify trends. They can also easily assess and demonstrate the impact of their safeguarding interventions.

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Gareth Quinn, Kairos chief operations officer, said: “The safety and wellbeing of young people is of critical importance to any sports organisation that works with youth players. We know that academies and other youth teams we work with are striving to make the sporting environment as safe as possible while improving club communications and operations amongst all key stakeholders and we are passionate about playing our part in that.

“To that end we couldn’t be happier to partner with The Safeguarding Company, a fantastic team with extensive domain expertise.”

Mike Glanville, chief safeguarding officer at The Safeguarding Company, added: “Recent high-profile news stories have shown that a range of safeguarding issues can affect all those taking part in and organising regular sporting activity and at all levels. This creates an enormous responsibility for coaches, team managers, safeguarding leads and volunteers to support individuals and manage what can be extremely challenging issues.

“Our partnership with Kairos delivers a highly effective combination of best safeguarding practice and world class technology into this all-important area of our lives.”

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