Education workshops and webinars

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Qualified officials can also undertake training via conferences and webinars on particular topics within or outside their main discipline.

Call Room module

When this is in place, this is the location athletes arrive for ahead of being escorted to their track or field event. Here roles within this area include, checking athletes are arriving here on time for volunteers/officials to do further checks. Assisting athletes prepare for their race by making sure they are wearing the correct number, letting them know what lane and heat they are in, escorting athletes to start line for track or to the field event site.

A free on-line Call-Room Module is available for anyone who is interested in or has been allocated a role in the Call-Room or can be used for Continuous Personal Development (CPD). The Call-Room enables an athletics meeting to be run efficiently, on time and according to the rules with well-trained officials. This module will take you through the different roles within the call-room and explain all the checks you would make on both track and field athletes.

Communities of Good Practice for grassroots officiating

These sessions are designed covering a wide range of topics across all officiating disciplines about grassroots officiating. All the sessions allow for continuous and professional development (CPD) for Officials across all disciplines and levels and all recordings can be found below. The 2025 series of sessions and topics are as follows:

Coffee and cake catch-up – including guest speaker and Q&A session. 

Wednesday 21 May, 7-8pm.

We are pleased to have one of the UK's World Athletics Referees as the guest speaker talking about their journey as an official and developing/progressing through grassroots officiating to officiating at international events across the world. This is also a virtual coffee and cake catch-up for officials with a general update from the home countries and an opportunity for officials to ask any questions related to officials’ development and education.

Book onto this session

COP archive

Select the topic to watch the webinar on YouTube or go to our YouTube playlist. A presentation can be downloaded where available.

General

Endurance and Race Walking officials

Field and Track officials

Start, Timekeeping and Photofinish officials

National Athletics Referee (World Athletics) eLearning course

This is a free online resource created by World Athletics which is an eLearning multi-disciplinary course for any official to complete. It does not all have to be done at the same time and can be completed on a gradual basis.

This resource is highly recommended as a course for officials, especially Level 4 officials, to broaden your knowledge across the various track/field disciplines and assist with your development as an official.

Officials' Courses

Find details of all upcoming Officials’ courses for qualifications and development opportunities.

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