Sports Integrity Services

We help leading sporting organisations manage integrity risks

We work with Australia's leading sporting codes and clubs to help them protect their people, reputation and sponsors

Professional sports is a high stakes game. The pressure to perform exists both on and off the field, and never before has the commercial pressure been greater as codes and clubs compete for vital corporate sponsorship support, fan loyalty and important broadcast revenue. In addition to these pressures, the integrity of all sports and ensuring ‘fair play’ remains a continual challenge for administrators at both the professional and semi-professional level, especially with the increased focus on child safety and the global rise of legalised sports betting and the risk it poses to fair play.

Luckily, we can help. We work with some of Australia’s leading sporting codes and clubs to help them manage their integrity risks.

Prevention is better than the cure

Prevention is always better than your best response

We provide a range of proactive sports integrity services to help codes and clubs prevent or minimise the impact integrity risks can have on their sport and organisation. We have adopted best-practice methodologies commonly used in corporate and government to help sports protect their people, reputation and sponsors so they can focus on what they do best – play.

We recognise the cost pressures being faced by sporting codes and clubs of all sizes as broadcast models fragment, more sports professionalise and the competition for corporate sponsorship support increases however we also know first-hand that the cost of responding to an integrity issue or crisis event can often far exceed the modest investment required to implement proactive integrity initiatives.

Our client services include:

integrity risk assessments where we help you identify the threats to your specific sport and the controls required to minimise them
review and development of child safety (safeguarding) frameworks to meet legal and regulatory requirements
review and development of policies
review and development of complaint handling procedures to improve your participant’s experience
data analytics and thematic reviews
integrity operations performance reviews

If your sporting code or club is looking for a competitive advantage where you can demonstrate the strength of your integrity program to give corporate sponsors, broadcast partners and fans confidence then you should reach out to book a discovery call with our team.

We help leading sporting organisations manage their integrity risks

Early detection is key

When something does happen, early detection is important to minimise the cost and impact to your organisation

We are passionate about helping people do the right thing and helping organisations create safe speak up cultures and this philosophy also extends to sporting codes and clubs of all sizes. When it comes to the broad spectrum of integrity risks facing sports today, early detection of those issues is key to ensure the welfare of those impacted is managed effectively and to ensure the impact to the club, code, sponsors and fans is lessened.

We provide our leading Speak Up Integrity Hotline programs to three (3) of Australia’s largest sporting codes and a number of leading professional sporting teams to ensure their players, coaches, staff and volunteers can speak up early to report any potential integrity issues that may be occurring. These leading codes and clubs recognise the important role that creating a safe speak up culture plays to both their on-field and off-field performance.

We have programs for sporting codes and clubs of all sizes to help you protect your people, reputation and sponsors. Get in touch to see if we are a good match.

Respond with confidence

When something does go wrong it's vital you respond quickly and decisively

No matter how strong your culture and risk management planning is, the reality is that at some point your sporting code or club will encounter an integrity issue. When it does occur, it’s vital that you respond both quickly and decisively to ensure you minimise the impact, demonstrate sound leadership in a crisis, build trust with your staff and players and importantly, give your key commercial partners confidence that you have the issue under control.

The team at Core Integrity are experts at responding to integrity issues and conducting investigations. Our multi-disciplinary and experienced team can provide you with initial crisis and incident management support to help you manage your board, key stakeholders and the media, law enforcement liaison when criminal allegations have been made and the provision of independent investigation services to help guide you back to safety.

Our clients engage us because of our deep experience in sports investigations and so we can provide them with the independence they require to conduct a thorough investigation.

Our sports investigation experience includes:

Member protection issues
Safeguarding issues
Match-fixing, sports betting and corruption
Bullying and harassment allegations
Child safety
Code of Conduct and policy breaches
protected whistleblower disclosures

We have significant experience conducting a broad range of complex and relatively simple sports integrity investigations and we employ a range of technical competencies to assist our investigative methodology including forensic technology services (device acquisition, extraction and analysis) as well as open source intelligence gathering.

If you are looking for a safe pair of hands who can help your code or club respond to integrity issues with confidence and independence, then get in touch. Ask us about our Integrity Retainer Services.

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Results we’ve achieved for clients

Don’t just take our word for it! Learn how we work across corporate, government and professional sports to help our clients protect their people, reputation and bottom line. Discover our ‘Core Integrity Lifecycle’ approach and how we tailor our solutions to suit out client’s individual needs.

Speak Up Integrity Hotlines

Developing a tailored Speak Up Integrity Hotline program for Bingo Industries

We partnered with Bingo Industries as an integrity-risk partner to develop and implement a Speak Up Integrity Hotline that supported Bingo’s values of working honestly and ethically.

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What our clients say

Darren, Ian, Dylan and the team at Core Integrity bring a breadth of public and private sector experience to our team. Our staff now have a secure, confidential and safe way to speak up when they see something wrong in the workplace. The integrity hotline provides a vehicle for our staff to come forward in a confidential way should they wish to with the comfort that someone will listen and take the necessary action. Core Integrity have also provided us assistance in strengthening our fraud risk management processes and help us build strong intelligence networks with law enforcement and other agencies.

The team are committed, polished and professional – I would be more than happy to speak with anyone thinking about taking them on to share our experience.

Core Integrity are quite simply fantastic to work with. Darren and the team are incredibly passionate and knowledgeable in their field of expertise, they’ve supported us so well in establishing our Speak Up policy and program – they make it easy to work with them. Thank you!

The Core Integrity team has a passion for creating a safe speak up culture and the desire to get immersed into your business. They don't just provide a cookie cutter solution. They want to understand the people and what drives them. With the Speak Up Integrity Hotline, I knew that our people would be well looked after.

Core Integrity provided our organisation with great support when we implemented our Speakup Hotline and Corethix portal, tailoring their products to our needs and ensuring a collaborative process throughout. Darren and his team have a wealth of expertise in the area of risk and compliance that instils a lot of confidence in our day-to-day dealings and for addressing any issues as they arise.

Utilising Core Integrity and the Corethix platform has been transformative for our organisation. By tailoring Corethix to reflect our industry and organisational needs, we have been able to efficiently streamline our compliance and HR processes. Our staff now have the ability to manage their workplace obligations digitally with little difficulty. The Core Integrity team are always happy to provide support and excel in providing us with expert advice.

I am thrilled to share my experience with Core Integrity. Their team went above and beyond to meet my needs. From the initial consultation to the final delivery and outcomes, every step was handled with professionalism and care. The quality of their service exceeded my expectations, and I would highly recommend them. Thank you, Kim, Darren and Dylan for your outstanding support.

Corethix has been an extremely valuable system for us to implement and use at RMHC VIC & TAS in terms of moving everything across to a digital interface. As a federated business model, we have local policies, national policies and global policies that are frequently updated and distributed, and that all employees must attest / be aware of. Corethix has provided on online distribution and attestation method and finally got rid of paper, scanning and emails – life changing for us! In addition, the certificate module, gives the employees a sense of ownership and pride as they upload their certs. It reduces HR email traffic in this space and gives us a central platform to record T&D. we look forward to exploring more of the modules as we further embed Corethix into the business.