Sask Sport is marking Pink Shirt Day with a focus on eradicating bullying in sports.
"I work every day towards mitigating the amount of bullying that happens in amateur sports," said provincial sport consultant for Sask Sport Nathan Cole. "We know it happens, so we work to prevent and address bullying in sports when it does happen and any forms of abuse."
Part of that focus has been developing policy to deal with it.
"We worked to establish a safer sport environment through policy work (with) a safe sport manual," Cole said. "It's quite comprehensive and it's got some key pieces. They code of contact being a big one that outlines the standards of conduct and the prohibited types of behaviours we don't want to see in sports with our young people.
"Obviously bullying is completely unacceptable and there is no place for it in sports."
He added their team at the sport and lotteries department came to the office in pink shirts today to help draw attention to the anti-bullying message.
"We've also formed a partnership recently with Dare to Care that does a lot of work in the space to offer information and key strategies on how to safely intervene if bullying is taking place around us," Cole said. "How to address it and prevent it moving forward."