Race within the rules
This page explains what governing bodies, regulators, standards bodies and researchers publish. It is not a substitute for your class's rule book, a track's safety rules, the race director or the makers' instructions.
Policies, not cases
This page describes published policies and the bodies that hold them. It names no individual and records no allegation or sanction. A child in immediate danger is a matter for the police or emergency services.
What was found
The research for this site found one published safeguarding policy from an RC car racing body: the British Radio Car Association's (BRCA). No safeguarding policy was found for IFMAR, EFRA, ROAR or Australia's AARCMCC. Not found is not the same as not existing; those bodies' sites and rule books were not all reachable, as other pages on this site explain.
BRCA (United Kingdom)
The documents
The BRCA publishes a safeguarding page in its Racer Hub that summarises its Safeguarding Policy. The policy itself is listed as a 2024 PDF, "BRCA-Safeguarding-policy-2024", and is not marked confidential or restricted on its listing page. The text of the policy document was not read for this site, so what follows is from the BRCA's published summary page only.
What the summary commits to
- A designated officer. The BRCA says it has a designated Safeguarding Officer responsible for putting the policy into practice and for dealing with concerns in a timely and appropriate way. This site does not name the post-holder.
- Zero tolerance. The BRCA states a zero-tolerance policy towards any form of abuse or neglect of members, children or young people.
- Raising concerns. It commits to clear channels for raising concerns and encourages parents and carers to use them.
- Review and co-operation. It commits to reviewing the policy regularly against current legislation and best practice, and to working with other organisations and agencies.
- Children's voices. The page says children and young people have the right to be heard and to have their views considered in decisions that affect them.
What the summary does not say
The summary page names no specific legislation, and it sets out no background-check requirement and no requirement for clubs to appoint a welfare officer. Those points may be in the full 2024 policy, which was not read; this site does not say either way.
Conduct and the route into racing
The BRCA's "How can I race?" page (2026) points newcomers to a "Race With Respect" initiative on conduct and to the Safeguarding section of its Racer Hub. The BRCA's Non-Driving Membership, which it says is designed for racers' parents, pit crew and substitute marshals, lets those people be trackside at race and club events with membership insurance; the BRCA join page does not mention parental consent or supervision of junior members.
Related pages
Each body's age lines for juniors are on youth and junior rules, and the BRCA's junior programmes, including the BRCA Academy, are on how people learn.