Safe Sport Day is celebrated annually by the International Advisory Board of the International Safeguards for Children in Sport aiming to ensure access to safe sport for all children.

The Commonwealth Youth Games is held for athletes aged 14 to 18, and the CGF has sought to use the opportunity to stage athlete impact labs to promote awareness on how to raise safeguarding issues.

The CGF has received support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Commonwealth Youth Sport for Development and Peace Network, and its chief executive Katie Sadleir underlined the importance of Trinbago 2023 for furthering its work.

"It gives us an amazing opportunity to lift the profile of something globally and raise awareness and reflect on how important safeguarding is in sport," the New Zealander said.

"The CGF is absolutely committed to making sure safe sport is in all of our Games, and in the last two years we've worked extensively with leading experts around the world to develop our policies and to work with all the CGAs [Commonwealth Games Associations] to ensure that they have safeguarding policies and processes in place to deal with safeguarding issues.

"This lead-up to the Commonwealth Youth Games has been a fantastic example of joint collaboration between a variety of stakeholders to ensure that there is safe sport inside and associated with our Games, so we're working with the Organising Committee and a whole team of volunteers with UNICEF and the Commonwealth Youth Sport for Development and Peace Network to ensure that we provide training opportunities for athletes that are here through our impact labs.

"We also have signs all around the villages and on the apps to make sure they're really aware of how they raise safeguarding issues."

Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee President Diane Henderson claimed the safeguarding work at the Games would be a "legacy" for the host nation and the Caribbean region, revealing Organising Committee officials, athletes and volunteers have had to "do the necessary training to be sensitive and aware of the impacts to the athletes as well as officials".

Trinbago 2023's safeguarding lead Mark Mungal hopes it serves as an example to future event organisers of the work that can be implemented alongside the Games.

"I think it is really nice that we have International Safe Sport Day happening in the middle of these Youth Games and it gives us an opportunity to use the Games to highlight the importance of safeguarding," he said.

"The truth is over the years it has been a struggle to get the information out, and thanks to organisations like the CGF, UNICEF and the Commonwealth Secretariat and others, we have been able to make progress.

"Here, I think we really have a super example of what we need to have at Games.

"There is the training we have but also systems for people to be able to report and us to be able to respond, which is one of the gaps we have at the global level still."

Nine student journalists from Trinidad and Tobago are seeking to secure video content from athletes at the Youth Games to show the importance of safe sport in an initiative supported by UNICEF UK.

Annamaria Bourne is one of those, and she reported a positive response to the programme's work from athletes.

"What we're doing is trying to generate content to build awareness and generate information and spread awareness about safe sport," Bourne said.

"They have been very engaging so far.

"A lot of them know about safe sport and their rights, and they know the importance about it, so they really speak up about it."

The Commonwealth Youth Games is due to run until Friday (August 11).